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Lourdes OR Team Repurposes Surgical Wraps To Help The Homeless
Before any surgery takes place in the operating rooms of Our Lady of Lourdes Medical Center, a technician unwraps a set of sterilized instruments from what looks like a blue, giant-sized rolled-up napkin.
Lourdes “Green Team” includes (left to right): Ian Menewisch, RNFA; Juliann Panza, surgical technician; Jen Lindenhofen, RN; Dana Scarangelli, surgical technician; John Whitley, RT; Laura Faust, CRNA; and Jeanine Lippincott, RN.
The “napkin” is actually a sheet of plastic material that cannot be recycled. During some surgeries, many sheets end up in the trash bin.
But while the sheets can’t be recycled, they can be repurposed, found Lourdes surgical technician Dana Scarangelli and nurse anesthetist Laura Faust, CRNA.
Since May 2018, the duo, along with Ian Menewisch, RN, BSN, RNFA, and the “Lourdes Green Team,” have been taking as many 48-inch by 48-inch blue material sheets as possible and sewing them together into what look like 24-inch by 48-inch yoga mats to give to the homeless. Some sheets have even been sewn into sleeping bags and tote bags.
