The survey respondents included 700 hospitals in 42 states surveyed April 11-15. Seventy-four percent of respondents cited isolation gowns as their top shortage concern, up from 56 percent last month.

The Biden administration has granted up to $510 million to boost the domestic production of personal protective equipment (PPE) such as isolation gowns to restock the Strategic National Stockpile ...

A Hanover County manufacturing company has shifted part of its production to make materials that are used in personal protective equipment, or PPE, for health care workers in the fight ...

Thousands of isolation gowns produced at local manufacturer, delivered to Premier Health by: Devero Bogart Posted: Apr 24, 2020 / 05:37 PM EDT Updated: Apr 24, 2020 / 05:52 PM EDT ...

CORLEY: But here's the problem, says Chaun Powell. He's a health care executive at Premier Inc. Isolation gowns, N95 masks and surgical masks are all made of the same raw material.

So when Premier Health reached out to FastLane with an urgent need for isolation gowns, the team was able to seamlessly refocus much of its effort to addressing that need. Team members Priscila ...

The substandard isolation gowns are "putting healthcare workers at risk of exposure to bloodborne or other pathogens, as well as SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19," an ECRI news release said.

In just five days, Petoskey Plastics’ isolation gown went from concept to production with about 10,000 of them being made daily now. The company in Emmet County worked with McLaren Health Care ...

ECRI found that 52% of gowns it tested with unstated levels of protection failed to meet even the Association for the Advancement of Medical Instrumentation's lowest level for protection.

Managing reusable PPE enables hospitals to forgo disposable gown use and instead track the laundering, sanitizing and history of each garment via UHF RFID.