Sterile Processing Department Development & Implementation | SMI Group
Sterile Processing Department Development & Implementation | SMI Group

Sterile Processing

Achieve & Maintain Best Hospital & Ambulatory Surgery Center SPD Standards

Sterile Processing

Achieve & Maintain Best Hospital & Ambulatory Surgery Center SPD Standards

SMI Group hospital consultants are highly skilled at improving sterile processing operations with a proven, result based track record. We can assess your program, identify opportunity, and implement best practice improvements; provide interim SPD management and staff training and education; recommend optimal equipment, design and renovation solutions, install state-of-the-art instrument management systems, prepare your team for regulatory audits and create or update policies and procedures. We can help you increase SPD capacity, which will provide your OR with added scheduling flexibility and volume potential. Our expertise also includes Endoscopic Reprocessing.
Program Assessment

The SPD Program Assessment is appropriate for the hospital needing assistance to help create a vision, to identify opportunities for improvement, or to gain an outside perspective about the quality, effectiveness, and service orientation of their sterile processing function. Recommendations are provided for proposed changes in the organizational structure, training and education, equipment and design options, workflow, communication, and quality assurance.

Sterile Processing Department Development & Implementation | SMI Group
Sterile Processing Department Development & Implementation | SMI Group

Infrastructure & Physical Plant Development: We have the expertise to advise you on the best equipment options that reduce cost and utility consumption while meeting your current and projected workload capacity and improving processing efficacy and efficiency. Our experience can benefit you in an inpatient setting, an ambulatory operation or in developing remote sterile processing alternatives. Is space a problem? We can help you in new design, retrofitting existing space, or operationalizing an off-site sterile processing center.

Instrument Tracking System Implementation: Item specific tracking and status information is critical to provide competitive advantage. SMiG can provide guidance and resource to support the implementation of these systems so that your team can remain on task with daily operations and update services at the same time. We can also teach your teams how to use these systems to actively manage instrument inventory and optimize personnel productivity.

Regulatory Audits Ppreparation: Sterile Processing is rapidly gaining regulatory visibility. Surveyors have been specially trained to review various components of Sterile Processing workflow and many locations are not compliant. We can audit your department and recommend solutions to regulatory risk areas as well as prepare for special certifications.

Policies and Procedures: Current policies and procedures that match practice are vital for regulatory reviews, best performance and patient safety. We can review your current portfolio and suggest revisions, updates and additions or create new ones. We can also in-service your staff on those changes.

SPD Staffing Analysis: The SPD Staffing Analysis is appropriate for the hospital that requires a determination of appropriate staffing to meet regulatory compliance and customer demand. This analysis is performed in conjunction with the hospital’s SPD manager in order to gain acceptance and transfer understanding of the methodology utilized. The analysis determines the FTE budget and appropriate staffing pattern (by shift, time of day, and work station) and gives the manager a tool for future assessment of FTE needs as program demand changes.

Training and Education Assistance
Training and Education Assistance helps support the critical education needs of the hospital for SPD management and staff:

  • Sterile Processing management training/mentoring;

  • Competency-based education program development and deployment;
  • Staff training and preparation for certification.
Sterile Processing Department Development & Implementation | SMI Group
Sterile Processing Department Development & Implementation | SMI Group

Training and Education Assistance
. . . helps support the critical education needs of the hospital for SPD management and staff:

  • Sterile Processing Department management training/mentoring;
  • Competency-based education program development and deployment;
  • Staff training and preparation for certification.

On-Site Implementation Assistance
. . . is often provided in conjunction with or following a program assessment. This type of assistance is appropriate for the hospital/health system seeking both Sterile Processing Department management team mentoring and project management of improvement initiatives. Implementation activities are organized through an OR/SPD Action Committee, which becomes the group responsible for initial project objectives and ongoing quality assurance. Tools and the development of an implementation plan are included.

Interim SPD Management:
. . . is appropriate for the hospital that:

  • Has an open sterile processing department leadership position.
  • Needs assistance mentoring an existing manager.
  • Is seeking fundamental or significant operations improvement.

About 20 years’ worth of updates in a very short period of time.

The SMI Group is assisting us with our assessment and redesign of the sterile processing department at Temple University Hospital. We are extremely pleased with SMIG. Their national and Philadelphia-specific experience has allowed us to radically change the department and make about 20 years’ worth of updates in a very short period of time.

Pat Moser, Director of Operations, Temple University Hospital, Philadelphia

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Why Choose Surgery Management Improvement (SMI) Group?

Why Choose Surgery Management Improvement (SMI) Group?

The SMI Group’s Principals have worked as senior level executives and vice presidents of hospital management consulting firms including Chi Systems, DJ Sullivan & Associates, and Johnson & Johnson Healthcare Systems Inc.

  • SMI Group brings you experienced, dedicated clinical and business professionals who care about your hospital management. We will craft a winning strategy to successfully implement change for your organization.
  • The Principals and Founders of the Surgery Management Improvement Group share a combined total of seventy years of experience as hospital management CONSULTANTS.
  • All our consultants are seasoned professionals with perioperative clinical, surgery business, sterile processing, and high-level management experience.
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