We offers Steps to Help Facilities Ensure Sterile Processing Practices are in Compliance

1. AIHG through our experienced consultants conduct a thorough assessment of the department. We determine
what is not working, apply best practices through process changes, and help your internal team implement identified best
Practices for long term sustainability:
To help ensure they are properly cleaning and sterilizing surgical and endoscopic equipment, hospitals should regularly have their
sterile processing procedures externally audited, according to experts with IMS, which manages and evaluates sterile processing
departments for hundreds of hospitals nationwide.
“A comprehensive risk assessment can help facilities verify they are in compliance with regulatory and industry standards, a concern
not only for healthcare providers but patients,” says Tracey Rapp, director of staff development for IMS. “If there are problems,
this type of audit provides clear recommendations for correcting them.”
Mike Greenway, AIHG CEO for clinical operations, offers six additional tips to help facilities ensure surgical and
Endoscopic equipment is clean:
1. Certification: Provide training and support to ensure that all sterile processing technicians are certified by either the Certification
Board for Sterile Processing and Distribution, Inc. or the International Association of Healthcare Central Service Materiel
Management.
2. Training: Provide regular training, as well as in-services on any new equipment that is purchased. “When a facility buys a new
instrument, the sterile processing staff must be trained in the specific Instructions for Use for that device. This goes along with
the periodic training that should be mandatory in sterile processing.
3. Standard Operating Procedures: Sterile processing technicians should be provided comprehensive guidelines for cleaning,
sterilizing, and reprocessing instruments and other equipment.
4. Equipment: Washers, brushes, and sterilizing equipment should be regularly inspected, properly maintained, and replaced as
needed. Quality chemicals and other cleaning materials should be provided and used according to manufacturers’ instructions.
5. Problem Instruments: Rongeurs, cannulated and suction devices, and instruments used in minimally invasive procedures are
among those that can be particularly difficult to clean. Many of these devices can improve patient outcomes – so
long as they are effectively cleaned and sterilized, If not, then the risk of infection increases, and that’s why training on these
devices is so important.”
6. Instrument Maintenance: Worn or broken instruments can be more likely to harbor contaminants. Some repair providers,
including IMS, Provide periodic inspection of surgical equipment at no cost.
Do more for your operating rooms by doing more for your sterile processing department.
American International Healthcare Group is the solution.
For An Evaluation Please Call:
American International Healthcare Group, LLC
Office: 1-928-554-6161
Email: michaelgreenway@aihg.health
P.O. Box 26813 Prescott Valley AZ. 86312
We offers Steps to Help Facilities Ensure Sterile
Processing Practices are in Compliance