Offsite Reprocessing Services
As sterile processing continues to evolve, sterile processing departments (SPDs) face daily challenges with staffing shortages and surgical case volume increases. Ensuring your department runs efficiently and complies with manufacturers’ Instructions For Use (IFUs) and regulatory requirements is crucial. STERIS Offsite Reprocessing Centers (ORCs) allow you to maintain and increase surgical volumes while improving the efficiency of your SPD. As an industry expert in sterile processing, STERIS processes over 150 million instruments annually for our Customers. Sending your surgical instrument trays to a STERIS ORC allows you to confidently maintain and increase surgical volumes while improving the efficiency of the SPD in your hospital or ambulatory surgery center (ASC).
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 non-sterile and sterilized 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.
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