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Medical device processing is critically important to the safety of patients everywhere. This podcast from Healthmark Industries is about answering questions and sharing knowledge related to sterile processing, endoscopy, infection prevention, biomedical engineering, leadership, and products. Have a question you would like answered on the show? Send it to our email address asktheeducator@hmark.com.

Episodes

21. The Ten Factors of Cleaning Series (Part 6): Water

September 10, 2020

Stephen Kovach speaks with host Kevin Anderson about how water is one of the 10 factors of cleaning and what we need to know about it.

20. Finding a Safe and Effective Way to Process PPE: An Interview with Dr. Kaye and Dr. Roberts

September 3, 2020

Dr. Kaye and Dr. Roberts, from University of Michigan Medicine, share their story of multidisciplinary collaboration that led to finding the safest and most effective way to process n95 masks.

19. The Ten Factors of Cleaning Series (Part 5): Temperature

August 27, 2020

Stephen Kovach shares how temperature makes one of the ten critical factors of cleaning, and why you should be monitoring water temperature.

18. The Ten Factors of Cleaning Series (Part 4): Standards

August 20, 2020

Kevin Anderson and Stephen Kovach continue the 10 factors of cleaning series, and discuss how industry standards impact our cleaning processes.

17. The Ten Factors of Cleaning Series (part 3): Human Factors

August 13, 2020

In this episode, Stephen Kovach and Kevin Anderson discuss a third factor of the ten factors of cleaning… the human factor.

16. The Ten Factors of Cleaning Series (part 2): The Device

August 6, 2020

In this episode, Stephen Kovach and Kevin Anderson discuss how the device design is one of the ten factors that effect the cleaning process.

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About Instructor

Kevin Anderson

Kevin Anderson is a Clinical Education Coordinator for Healthmark Industries. He is a registered nurse (BSN) with multiple certifications including CNOR, CRCST, CHL, CIS and CER. Before joining Healthmark Industries, Kevin worked for 18 years in the acute care setting serving in various clinical and leadership capacities including clinical coordinator of general surgery, operating room manager and manager of sterile processing and endoscopy services. His sterile processing team was recognized with IAHCSMM’s Confidence Builder Award for their outstanding quality improvement in 2018.

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