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Practical writing on the hardest problems in sterile processing — staffing, IUSS, instrument loss, aging infrastructure, water quality — from SteriPro and contributing practitioners across our professional community.
The SPD staffing crisis is a system problem, not a hiring problem
Vacancies, overtime, and agency backfill are usually the largest hidden cost in sterile processing. What actually stabilizes a reprocessing workforce.
Read Patient SafetyIUSS is a symptom. Capacity is the disease.
Immediate-use steam sterilization persists where instrument availability falls short. The path to zero runs through throughput, not policy memos.
Read TraceabilityYou can't lose what you can see: instrument-level tracking and the real cost of lost instruments
Most hospitals track trays, not instruments. That gap costs more than the missing forceps.
Read InfrastructureYour SPD is aging faster than your capital plan
When the space can't meet CSA Z314 or AAMI ST79 at projected volumes, "renovate in place" may be the most expensive option on the table.
Read StandardsAAMI ST108 changed the water quality conversation. Is your SPD ready?
Water is a critical input to sterilization, not a facilities afterthought. What ST108 and CSA Z314.10 expect — and where departments get caught.
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