April 22, 2025- When it comes to purchasing infection prevention supplies, acute care facilities and long-term care facilities are very different entities to interact with.
Hospitals have product selection committees, and the infection preventionists at the hospitals are always on them. But long-term care purchasing isn’t structured the same. At most facilities, it’s parceled out among many different people.
“A lot of times, you either have a corporate person purchasing for the facilities, plural, or you have a competent materials manager who I fondly call ‘George in the Basement.’ He’s your materials person, and orders cleaner disinfectants with everything else,” said Deb Burdsall, manager, Infection Prevention at Baldwin Hill Solutions LLC in Palatine, Illinois, and a board member of the Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology (APIC). “Then you have another person ordering for dietary, another ordering for environmental services, and one more person ordering for nursing.”
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