Oct 15, 2025 12:31:19 PM

Elevating Sterile Processing: A 2025 SPD Week Reflection

October 12–18: A week to celebrate the professionals who power patient safety

Sterile Processing Week isn’t just a few days on the calendar; it’s a professional milestone. HSPA leads the national effort to recognize the committed specialists who make a difference in patient care not just for one week, but year after year.

We welcome another opportunity to honor SPD professionals everywhere. Their skill, focus, and dedication behind the scenes make them essential to every successful surgical outcome.

The Unsung Backbone of Safe Surgery

SPD professionals clean, inspect, assemble, sterilize, and deliver the instruments surgeons use every day. Their work is complex, regulated, and under unrelenting pressure.
Mistakes aren’t just errors. They’re threats to patient health. And that’s a big responsibility to be taken on by our SPD technicians.

A strong sterile processing system means fewer delays, more reliable procedures, and better outcomes. Just ask one of our Kentucky partners:

“Their professionalism and day-to-day presence strengthened our processes and culture of safety, contributing to zero findings during our recent TJC Triennial Survey.”
— Associate Director of Nursing, Kentucky Health System

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Supporting SPD Through Partnerships & Practice

At Surgical Solutions, we don’t just fill gaps, we help raise the bar. Our collaboration with hospitals rests on three core pillars:

Expert People: CRCST- and CHL-certified technologists who bring depth, consistency, and accountability.
Robust Processes: Systems that drive instrument flow, quality checks, and error reduction.
True Partnership – We embed ourselves into hospital teams, acting as their extension, not an outside vendor.

We believe this kind of partnership is how you build resilient, high-performing SPD departments, not just for one week of recognition, but for the long haul.

Gratitude, Today and Every Day

Sterile Processing Week may last seven days, but our respect and advocacy for SPD professionals is year-round.
To every technician, lead, supervisor, and champion in SPD: thank you for your precision, resilience, and commitment to lives.

Your work may be silent. Your impact? Unmistakable.

About Surgical Solutions

Surgical Solutions partners with hospitals nationwide to provide expert OR and SPD support.
We bring clinical acumen, process rigor, and organizational alignment to create safer, more efficient surgical environments.

Learn more at www.surgical-solutions.com