Save $300 with a ‘pen roundup’
September 1, 2003
Save $300 with a pen roundup’
To cut supply costs by $300 a year, Colleen Samp, office manager of the ED at William Beaumont Hospital in Royal Oak, MI, does a "pen roundup" twice a year.
"I have everyone go through their desk drawers and give me all of the pens that they have accumulated," she says.
About half the pens are promotional items from pharmaceutical representatives given to nurses, physicians, secretaries, and research staff, she says.
"I estimate that about 1,200 pens will be rounded up this year," Samp says.
The pens are put with the office supplies, and the hospital saves $300, the amount it normally spends annually on pens for the ED.
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