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ASHCSP plans to merge with IAHCSMM:
Single group to build stronger voice for CS profession
Member comments:
WOW!!! Congratulations!
Lyndle Dorrell
Administrative Director
Materials Management
CoxHealth
This is a great step. I fully support this partnership.
Lucila Frics
Great news and a long time coming! This will make healthcare organizations
take a closer look at the profession at a different level! Great job
done by all persons involved in the merger process!
Tanya Lewis, CRCST
Central Sterile Manager
Parkridge Medical Center
I just wanted to express that I am very happy to see that we will all
be one!!!!
Mary Velasco, BS, ACE-CRCST
Manager, Surgical Services
St. John Hospital & Medical Center
This is amazing news!!!! How in the world were you able to make this
happen?
Bob Marrs BA, CRCST, CHL
Director, Sterile Processing
St. David's Medical Center
GREAT NEWS.....CONGRATULATIONS, it's been long overdue.
Best of Luck.
Ken Wagner
This is very good news for me and our society here in
West Virginia. Congratulations to all involved!
Larry Parsons, CRCST
Central Service Sterile Supervisor
Raleigh General Hospital
AWESOME news!!!!
Anna Grayson
This is wonderful
news! Now
if the New Jersey folks would come on board, we could do great and
marvelous things!
Hazel J. Love CSIT
Supervisor Sterile Processing
Providence Portland Medical Center
This is huge!!! Congratulations on finally making this
happen. Kudos to all!!!
I am very proud to be part of this most professional organization. I
have watched it evolve over the years. We are right up there with AORN
and the other specialty-related organizations.
Clare Springgate
Betty and Richard: What an exciting day for our profession......you
both are terrific!!
Director of Central Sterile Processing
Hospital for Special Surgery
New York, NY
Good news about the merger - should make us be able
to make a bigger splash combining our show budgets.
Tina Strelau
Ecolab
It's about time! I have high hopes
one organization will allow us to focus efforts in a single direction,
working to bring to our profession the recognition we deserve and am
ready to give my time to any committee working toward that goal.
I am looking forward to a HIGH ENERGY gathering in Reno next year!!
Harvey Johnson
Portland, Oregon
Great news on the merger of the two associations.
Ray Averill, CST, CRCST
SRS Supervisor
FF Thompson Health System
I thought this day would never happen—not in my life time! The first thing I did this morning was to see if it was the end of October, and if the Chicago Cubs had won the World Series.
It was formally announced today at the 2007 American Society of Healthcare Central Service Professionals (ASHCSP) Conference that they would be merging with the International Healthcare Central Service Materiel Management (IAHCSMM). These were words I never thought I would hear. A merger between these two associations was LONG overdue, and many thought would never happen—not in our lifetimes. It is a step forward, one that definitely makes history for the central service profession. Egos will need to be checked at the door, and those involved will need to work together for the betterment of the profession.
Working together for the first time should be advantageous for those in central service/sterile processing departments across the United States. It will provide better educational offerings, better attended conferences and one unified voice that will help to lobby for advancement of its professionals—who are some of the most important, and often overlooked, employees in the healthcare setting.
More information on this landmark announcement is available at www.iahcsmm.org and www.ashcsp.org.
I applaud those involved in making this a reality. It is something that
should have been done more than a decade ago. Congratulation to both
organizations for seeing the light, and finally recognizing what is really
needed for the good of the profession.
Bill Eikost
Infection Control Today
It is very gratifying to know there is such a positive response to this.
I even saw it at the ASHCSP meeting when their membership gave the announcement
a standing ovation!
Lisa Huber, CRCST, FCS, ACE, Chairperson
Sterile Processing Director
Anderson Hospital
What a grand time
we are going to have in Reno. If celebrating the 50th anniversary
wasn’t
enough, then add this to it and I can hardly wait. I have always
been so impressed with the talent we have in the organization and
now joining it with the dynamic people from ASHCSP presents endless
opportunities.
Betty Strickland
St Joseph Medical Center
Director of Clinical Resources and Sterile Processing Houston Market
IAHCSMM’s Professional
Resource and Development Council (PDRC) applauds the merger of ASHCSP
and IAHCSMM. We look forward to working with our colleagues from
ASHCSP in the coming weeks and months to further our mutual goals
of providing quality education, certification, and support for CS
professionals.
Lisa Huber, Patti Koncur, Natalie Lind, Cheron Rojo, Jean Sargent
I have just returned from the
ASHCSP conference in St. Louis. It was my first time to attend one
of their conferences. I have been in the field of CS/SPD since 1978
and am very pleased and honored to be part of this historical event!
I feel that this can be the opportunity for the people in our profession
to band together and raise the bar. It is about time that we work together
to raise the consciousness of the nation and medical professionals.
Mary Moyers
CSS Supervisor
University of Iowa Hospital
What great news!! I never thought I would see it happen
during my active time with IAHCSMM. We are now ONE strong organization!
Ron Muckensturm
Illinois IAHCSMM Chapter
Congratulations on the news of the impending merger
of ASHCSP with IAHCSMM. Having a single CS organization will be a great
advancement for our industry and supported whole heartily by SPSmedical.
Please keep in touch as to any assistance myself or any of my staff can
provide with regards to supporting this major accomplishment. Kudos to
all at IAHCSMM to are working diligently to make this vision a reality.
Charles Hughes
General Manager/Educator
SPSmedical Supply Corp.
This is a great move. I'm sure we will see great things
come from this!!!!!!!!!!!!
Kathy Gelety S.T., R.N., CNOR
Surgical Technology
Program Director
Indian River Community College
