Our IV room is in the slow process of getting ready for 797 and I wondered if anyone has a contact company that they are planning to us to obtain all of the cleaning supplies and kits that will be needed to comply with 797? We have a couple companies that we have gotten pricing from but they are rather high and will end up costing us thousands of dollars a month.

Name of Facility: Palos Community Hospital

City, State: Community Hospital

Years as a Buyer: 16+ (33+tech)

Check the back of your PPO!

Acute Care has pretty much set themselves up as the <797> Headquarters for the nation. They had a huge booth at ASHP where they displayed all their <797> products. I've actually been to their warehouse, since they are in San Diego, and frankly, if they don't have it, you'll be hard pressed to find it somewhere else.

As always, the opinions expressed in this post do not necessarily reflect the views and opinions of Summerdale Enterprises, Inc., or Pharmacy Purchasing Outlook.

Name of Facility: Summerdale Enterprises, Inc.

City, State: Publishing

Years as a Buyer: 30+

Williams Medical has wide array of things too. Their contact phone number is 1-800-252-8646 and their website is https://williamsmedical.com/default.asp

Hope this helps.

Name of Facility: Kern Medical Center--222 beds

City, State: Teaching Acute care Trauma II

Years as a Buyer: 6

Williams and Acute Care are the two that I spoke to at the Conference in August. I have been working with both companies to see what we bring in for our facility at a reasonable price. No matter who we go with this is really going to be a big added expense.

I have also been in contact with both Williams and Acute, and have found that pricing is pretty much the same from both companies. Do you, are are you going to use the PhaSeal system? Just curious, talk about expense!!!!

Name of Facility: Fremont Area Medical Center

City, State: hospital

Years as a Buyer: 30+

We use both Acute & Williams. I have found that Acute seems to be the most knowledgable about the rulings and givinggreat information on this topic. This will add to your budgets. Also, there are some new revisions and rules that have recently come out from USP797.

Name of Facility: St. Francis health Center

City, State: Acute

Years as a Buyer: 4+ in Pharmacy 25 in retail hard goods

Please don't publish
I guess we are going to start using PhaSeal here. The pharmacist who did all the set-up work to <797> told me we are getting it and it was a done deal before I heard anything about it. I didn't even look at the price!!
It's one of those things we're going to have no matter how much it costs. Someone will just expect me to cut costs someplace else to make up the difference--as usual!!

Name of Facility: PORTER

Years as a Buyer: 9+

Ruth-

Can they not build the PhaSeal costs into your supplies cost? Especially since 797 requirements are shooting supply budgets through the roof... just tack that on. We've been using PhaSeal since before I got here so I'm not sure how they adjusted, but usually when you mention "safety" and "JCAHO" they tend to be willing to accept the financial increase (at least in my facility.....).

City, State: Teaching hospital

Years as a Buyer: 2

For the buyers using or going to use Phaseal, look into the Tevadaptor from B Braun. Their technology is quite impressive. I just saw it last week. Have to do a cost-benefit analysis on this. If anyone beats me to it please share the information.