Offsite Reprocessing Services

Why an ORC?

• Reduces daily instrument tray backlogs and surgical case delays resulting from SPD capacity restraints
• Improve vendor loaner tray reprocessing and tray management with Sterile Ready℠
• Ability to meet current surgical case volumes and be prepared for future surgical volume growth
• Enhances patient safety through a reduction in tray assembly errors, dirty or missing surgical instruments
• Increase surgeon and OR staff satisfaction
• Enhance IFU compliance

When to Consider a STERIS ORC

• Lack of space in your SPD creates tray backlogs and impacts quality
• Increasingly complex trays and IFUs
• Difficulties reprocessing and managing vendor loaner trays, laparoscopic trays, and other challenging instrument trays
• Challenges maintaining required IFU compliance
• Frustrated staff and leadership
• Planning for renovations
• Contingency for unforeseen shutdowns and maintaining OR schedules
• Struggling to maintain SPD staff and/or relying heavily on a staffing agency to fill provisional needs for your department
• Short or long-term outsourcing of sterile processing

Transportation and Logistics

STERIS offers pick-up of dirty trays and Sterile Ready tray delivery to healthcare facilities in a climate-controlled truck. In addition, we utilize transfer carts to transport instrument trays to and from the ORC safely.

Sterile Ready℠

The Sterile Ready services provide a full range of reprocessing services at our ORCs, from decontamination, inspection, assembly, and sterilization. Including:

• Offsite reprocessing services for decontamination, washing, sterilization, and assembly of reusable surgical instrument tray sets.
• Pick-up and delivery services for the transportation of surgical instrument tray sets between healthcare facilities and ORCs.
• Storage and replenishment of sterile and non-sterile medical devices and equipment at our ORC.

Emergency Service Support For Your SPD

Any challenges stemming from increased surgical volume, utility issues, renovations, and construction can cause sterile processing downtime. STERIS emergency services help support both partial and complete shutdown of your SPD, allowing facilities to outsource sterile processing departments for the short or long term.