While investment in OR capacity
has continued to rise, more and more healthcare
executives are realizing that the ability to grow surgical
suite
revenue is directly dependent on their sterile
processing department’s ability to handle the
growth.
SterilTek, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of STERIS
Corporation, can provide you with a variety of professional
services that focus on improving the efficiencies
between the OR and the entire instrument reprocessing
cycle, ultimately helping you to achieve your
goal of operational excellence.
With our comprehensive financial, clinical, and
operational expertise in instrument reprocessing,
SterilTek will assist you in identifying opportunities
for operational improvement and implementing any
necessary changes.
Process
Improvement
Before you expand your surgical procedure offerings, build a new OR,
or recruit a critical surgical staff member, ensure that you are in
a position to succeed.
SterilTek’s Process Improvement Services help
hospitals identify the best ROI and develop a long-term
plan to address increased surgical volume. We perform
a complete analysis of your hospital’s financial,
clinical, and operational goals, in order to develop
a reprocessing plan that will help your surgeons
receive the correct number of clean, sterile, and
complete instruments sets – on time, every
time.
SterilTek’s workflow management approach focuses
on the efficiency and effectiveness of your entire
instrument reprocessing loop.
Reprocessing Consolidation
Services Are you considering converting your Sterile
Processing Department into revenue generating space?
Have you fully considered the potential benefits
and risks of outsourcing the entire SPD?
SterilTek’s Consolidation Assessment and Implementation
Service can assist with evaluating, justifying, and
if appropriate, implementing a consolidation project.
SterilTek delivers comprehensive and objective clinical,
financial, and operational analysis. We help you
assess your current environment to help ensure that
you implement the best instrument reprocessing solution
for your needs, now and in the future.
Interim Management
The OR depends on timely delivery of complete sterile instrument sets.
When a hospital experiences an unexpected vacancy in sterile processing
management, the consequences can include surgical delays, incomplete
sets, a frustrated surgical staff, and lost revenue for the hospital.
SterilTek offers an Interim Management Service to temporarily fill
voids in sterile processing management, until a position is permanently
filled.
OR Sterilization Process Improvement
Services
To help lower the risk of hospital
acquired infections, professional organizations such
as JCAHO, AAMI and AORN have established recommendations
and standards to help operating room personnel implement
protocols that aid in effectively managing the use
of flash sterilization. Improved documentation and
record keeping is a major component of complying
with these standards and recommendations.
Does your OR comply with these recommended standards?
SterilTek’s OR Sterilization Process Improvement Program helps you proactively
manage OR sterilization processes by reducing reliance on flash sterilization.
This program is designed to help ensure quality patient outcomes by helping
you reduce the risk of hospital acquired infections.
As a part of the program, SterilTek offers its proprietary
FlashTracker™ analysis software. This software
tool provides critical analysis and reporting data
needed to understand, improve, and monitor flash
sterilization processes.
