Sterile Processing Solutions Calculator

Are your surgeons complaining about OR delays?

The Sterile Processing Department (SPD) serves a critically important function in the hospital ecosystem – keeping your surgeons satisfied by ensuring your surgeries happen on time while limiting infection risk to your patients. SPD errors cost your hospital significant time and money but, many hospitals don’t realize the extent of SPD errors that are impacting their operating rooms due to insufficient measuring and tracking. Reducing these errors will help protect your revenue by ensuring your OR runs on-time while mitigating expensive rework, patient infection risk, and other legal and compliance costs.

SPD Calculator (#8)

Sterile Processing Department (SPD) Calculator

Use this simple tool to calculate a cost savings with an efficient, data-driven Sterile Processing Department.

Our proactive, Lean Six Sigma approach prevents often-overlooked issues from becoming major financial losses, now and in the future.

Number of Annual Surgical Procedures (Please complete)

% Annual Growth of Surgical Procedures (what is your hospital’s projection?)

Industry projections are 3.5 – 5.5 CAGR

What is your hospital's % of SPD errors per surgical procedure (SPD errors/surgical procedures)

In SpecialtyCare’s extensive experience, % of SPD errors initially fall between 5%-20%.

7.5

Your current estimated error rate is errors per working day on average.

Does this match up with your OR experience?

Fewer SPD events = less cost. According to third party research, each SPD event can cost your hospital upwards of $6,000* when considering multiple factors including lost OR productivity, rework costs, extended hospital stays from surgical infections, and other legal, compliance, and liability costs.

$ Cost Per Error

6000

Revenue Protection

Engaging with SpecialtyCare, you can anticipate a (conservative) error reduction rate of 50% year over year*

Current Error Cost

Year 1 Annual Cost Avoidance

Year 2 Annual Cost Avoidance

Year 3 Annual Cost Avoidance

Cumulative Cost Avoidance over years 1 through 3

Current Error Cost

Year 1 Cost Avoidance

Year 2 Cost Avoidance

Year 3 Cost Avoidance

Cumulative Cost Avoidance

Cumulative Error Costs Without Action

Cumulative cost of SPD errors over three years including anticipated annual surgical procedures growth

Without action, your SPD error costs will continue and likely increase

Without action, your SPD error costs will continue and likely increase

SPD efficiency is an ongoing journey. Error and process correction take time. SpecialtyCare’s robust improvement process will guide you to an appropriate number of properly trained staff, ensure you have all necessary equipment, and operate with a proper quality system in place to inform ongoing success. Our goal is to help you create a sustainable SPD that you and your surgeons can count on for years to come.

NOTE: These projections are estimates and results cannot be guaranteed. Actual results will vary.

We welcome the chance to discuss your specific interest and opportunity, please contact us for a comprehensive assessment to identify the ideal workflow for your hospital.

WANT TO FIND OUT HOW SPECIALTYCARE’S Sterile Processing SERVICES CAN MAKE A DIFFERENCE IN YOUR OPERATING ROOM?

Are you curious as to how a SpecialtyCare Sterile Processing Service can potentially make your operating room more efficient, safer for the patient, and staffed with a team that is low in turnover and high in clinical training?