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Celebration in Central Sterile

Meenawatty Torres and Volodymyr Levytskyy (holding scissors), two of UConn Health’s Sterile Processing Department’s supervisors, cut the ribbon to mark the reopening of their workspace in the Connecticut Tower, nearly three years in the making. Pictured on Torres’ left are (from left) Cathy Mayotte (from the vendor Steris), Ellen Benson (associate director), Laura Sederquest, and Ewa Pawlak, and to Levytskyy’s right are (from left) Derrick Weir, Luis Quinones-Lima, Karen Curley (senior director of nursing), John Lombardi (director of facilities engineering and sustainability), and Mike Shane (Steris).