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Reacting to Risks: How to Respond to Dangerous Practices in Your Sterile Processing Departments
No one enjoys dealing with the kinds of difficult situations and conversations that this article addresses, but every sterile processing...
Hank Balch
Aug 23, 20235 min read


Bob the (SPD) Builder: Offsite SPDs & Case Cart Management
Offsite sterile processing centers aimed at supplementing or replacing hospital based sterile processing departments are on the rise...
Hank Balch
Jun 8, 20233 min read


Beyond Clean Taskforce Publishes Open Letter to CDC, Calls for Update to 2008 Guidelines
This Beyond Clean CDC Taskforce has written an Open Letter to Dr. Rochelle P. Walensky, Director of the Centers for Disease Control...
Hank Balch
May 5, 20232 min read


Dangerous Decontam: Is Your Department Design Hurting Your People?
You don’t have to spend more than five minutes in a sterile processing decontamination area to realize it’s a dangerous space...
Hank Balch
Apr 24, 20234 min read


Competency Saves Lives: Why the Hard Work of SPD Competency Paperwork Can’t be Ignored
When it comes to emergencies like this, we all instinctively know that someone who has been trained to handle the situation is the best...
Hank Balch
Oct 28, 20224 min read


Are Bigger Hospitals Safer? Not When it Comes to Surgical Instrument Reprocessing
The public would be astounded to know how many surgical instruments are used on them in major US hospitals every day with visible rust...
Hank Balch
Dec 8, 20203 min read
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