Bridging the Gap Between OR and Sterile Processing Workflows

Gain insights into the impacts of your current workflows, staffing and surgical volume to save money, improve department collaboration and enhance growth.

Is a disconnect between the SPD and OR hindering your surgical growth?

The connection between operating room (OR) and sterile processing department (SPD) growth is essential to managing surgical growth strategies, but it’s often neglected due to a lack of understanding or a clear path forward. When these departments are not in sync, it becomes much harder to develop processes and to grow either department consistently. The result? Time and money wasted on ineffective growth strategies while the real bottlenecks slowing your OR development continue to worsen.

Solution

Process-Ready Analysis is our proprietary service that bridges the gap between a hospital’s SPD and OR to improve the efficiency and development of both. By evaluating departmental processes, capital utilization and growth strategies, we provide actionable insights into how your workflows, staffing and surgical volumes affect growth, and how to leverage existing resources. By building this connection between these two departments, Process-Ready Analysis prepares both teams to proactively manage OR demand by:

• Developing strategic staffing models for effective resource utilization
• Accurately forecasting equipment capacity, utilization and daily reprocessing rates
• Improving awareness of OR scheduling to stay on top of anticipated shifts
• Setting metrics and guidelines for daily and hourly reprocessing volumes