The Top 5 Ways to Eliminate Surgical Delays
Sterile processing is one of the most critical departments within any healthcare facility. However, it often gets overlooked. Sterile processing departments should center their focus on three primary goals: ensuring correct instruments and supplies, being readily available when needed, and...
How Sterile Is Your Processing?
Sterile processing is a critical component in ensuring the safest patient care before, during, and after surgical procedures. The healthcare industry is constantly changing. Medical practices are becoming more complex, and technology is ever-evolving. Therefore, sterile processing departments (SPD) must...
Turn Your “Cost Center” SPD into a Revenue Generator
An underperforming sterile processing department (SPD) can be the source of dramatic hidden costs, both financially and in terms of patient outcomes. The sterile processing department is always viewed as a cost center, but the truth is that it holds…
Advocating for Safer Surgery- Principle #4: Sterilization
Every day, healthcare facilities’ sterile processing departments handle thousands of reusable surgical instruments and devices. The department reprocesses the used instruments so they are ready for the next surgical caseload. According to the CDC, critical items confer a high risk…
SPD Specialization is Becoming a Necessity
Innovations in healthcare have outpaced the generalized sterile processing department capabilities. Rapid advancement in surgical procedures has necessitated the creation of advanced surgical instruments, many of them complex in design. The increase in the number and complexity of tools as…
Advocating for Safer Surgery: Four Principles
With over 300 million people worldwide going under the knife every year, safer surgery is a universal healthcare priority. New studies and advances in medical science are reducing risk all the time — but the key to increasing patient safety…
How COVID-19 Has Impacted Sterile Processing Departments: Input from the
Sterile processing has always had a uniquely important role in the hospital, all the more so now when it comes to containing the spread of harmful pathogens. The arrival of the COVID-19 pandemic has changed a few things when it…
Benefits of Joining the SpecialtyCare Team
Becoming a medical professional is an expensive endeavor. You’ve worked hard to get where you are today, and at SpecialtyCare, we believe you should be rewarded for your pursuit of continued education. That’s why we offer student loan assistance and…
Sterile Processing Problems: High Turnover in Hospital SPD Staff
In a comparison with other high-income countries, the United States spends the most on healthcare — roughly 18% of our GDP. A tidy 8% of those healthcare costs are administrative, which includes the expensive and time-consuming process of recruiting and…