question: The COVID-19 coronavirus has effectively put the world at a crisis capacity strata with PPE requiring healthcare organizations and industries to deploy strategies that are not commensurate with U S standards of care That strategy is the reprocessing of PPE to ensure the security of PPE inventory How does an organization take steps to implement and operationalize a PPE reprocessing center? Vidant Medical Center (VMC) set up a centralized reprocessing center developed from scientific evidence using three methods: heat, hydrogen peroxide gas plasma, and isopropanol wash A hub and spoke model for PPE collection was implemented to collect PPE across an entire health system VMC’s reprocessing center successfully reprocessed over 55,000 individual PPEs © 2020 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group