It’s Medical Device Reprocessing Week – a time to celebrate the vital work happening behind the scenes to ensure surgical teams and others have the equipment and instruments they need to provide quality, safe care to Nova Scotians. Medical device reprocessing technicians (MDRTs) play a vital role in our efforts to reduce wait times and improve patient outcomes. These important team members are responsible for the cleaning, disinfection, inspection, assembly, packaging, sterilization and transpor

The safety of every patient that enters St. Joe’s starts in the Medical Device Reprocessing Department (MDR). This team is entirely dedicated to sterilizing thousands of medical instruments required to treat our patients. The MDR department disinfects, cleans, assembles, tests, packages, and sterilizes reuseable medical devices. Without MDR, surgeries and other life-saving procedures wouldn’t be possible! Thank you to this passionate and dedicated team, who work tirelessly 24 hours every day of

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