In today's global highly competitive healthcare environment, ambulatory surgical centers (ASC) are looking for ways to be more efficient. The challenge they are facing is how to lower operating costs without sacrificing patient care.1 The use of reprocessed surgical devices is a one way to tackle this challenge.
Efficiency
Reprocessed medical devices may cost less than those purchased new, driving cost savings and delivering a reliable supply of the instruments your center already uses.2 With the savings accrued from using reprocessed devices, ASC’s can direct more of their financial resources to important initiatives. Allocating savings to meet the needs of staff, upgrade and maintain technology, purchase capital equipment outright, and enhance patient care, can go a long way to making your ASC a leader in your community.
Reliability
Supply disruptions are an ongoing problem in many healthcare settings. Avoiding these disruptions by using reliable, FDA-regulated, reprocessed devices is critical to maintaining surgical schedules and enhancing your ASC’s efficiency. At Stryker’s Sustainability Solutions (SSS), we dedicate an entire support team to each of our partner facilities to maximize and standardize device collections throughout each center.
Savings and environmental impact
As healthcare costs rise, reprocessing is a strategic way for ASCs to save money, improve supply resilience, and support sustainability. Reprocessing with SSS has driven $1 billion in customer savings over the course of just five years.2 These savings positively impacted both the bottom lines of our partner organizations’ and made a difference in the communities they serve. In five years alone, our reprocessing partnerships diverted 22 million pounds of waste from landfills.2 Reprocessing also helps improves air quality by reducing greenhouse gas emissions by, on average, 41% compared to the use of virgin devices.3
Partnership
Find out how a partnership with Stryker’s Sustainability Solutions means your ASC can maintain quality and savings while not sacrificing care. Connect with SSS today by filling out the form below. An experienced SSS representative will reach out to you.
1. Ludmilla Pillay, Kenneth D Winkel, Timothy Kariotis, Developing the green operating room: exploring barriers and opportunities to reducing operating room waste, Medical Journal of Australia, 10.5694/mja2.52394, 221, 5, (279-284), (2024).
2. SSS Internal Data
3. Association of Medical Device Reprocessors (AMDR). AMDR statement on Medtronic LigaSure study failings. Published October 2024. Accessed October 7, 2024. https://amdr.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/AMDR-Statement-on-Medtronic-Ligasure-Study-Failings.pdf
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