BUFFALO, N.Y. — ECMC has two weeks worth of personal protective equipment (PPE) for their staff on hand at their Grider Street facility. The remaining 75-day supply of PPE was destroyed in the fire on ...

In 2015, Saratoga Hospital in Saratoga Springs, New York, unveiled a new, state-of-the-art intensive care unit that, at 20,000 square feet, is more than triple the size of the previous ICU. All rooms ...

Faced with ongoing PPE shortages and employer obfuscation about deadly outbreaks, more hospital staff are seeing on-the-job solidarity as essential work. National Nurses United staged shoes outside ...

We've written a lot at Plastics News about companies pivoting to make personal protective equipment. How about a story from the flip side? Our sister paper Crain's Detroit Business has this item from ...

DALY CITY, Calif. -- Another day, another massive collection of PPE just sitting outside, exposed to the elements. This time, more than half a million hospital gowns sit in the Seton Medical Center ...

The COVID-19 pandemic created an explosion in the use of disposable face masks around the globe. This added to the already significant amount of PPE waste generated by hospitals and in other medical ...

A study published in Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology shows the design of personal protective equipment for infectious diseases is not very user friendly, which is problematic, given its ...

A steady stream of Kings County Hospital and University Hospital of Brooklyn employees braved the cold winds on Jan. 27 by standing in line to pick up free PPE donated by Cut Red Tape 4 Heroes. Two ...