Hospital Owned Trays (Internal Trays)

Hospital-owned trays grow over time and rarely get streamlined. Optimizing these trays cleans up non-compliant trays, reduces SPD workload, saves money on the re-purchase of instruments, and allows for standardization across service lines and locations.

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Rationalization

  • Reduce over 30% of tray sizes on average.

  • Reducing the overall instruments on trays reduces the OR setup and time to count instruments.   

Consolidation

  • Combine trays, when possible after rationalization, to reduce the total number of trays per case.

  • Standardize surgeon-named trays, specials or trays with similar composition.

  • Reducing the overall number of trays and instruments on trays reduces the time needed to process those trays, thereby reducing any backlog in central/sterile processing.

Tray Inventory Reduction

  • Ensure surgical volume matches inventory for each tray type and quantity.

 
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Vendor Owned Trays (Loaner Trays)

Vendors control the trays for their cases and the hospital is unable to drive efficiency in those cases, yet are burdened with sterilization costs. By tracking vendor trays that are pulled, opened, and used during the case and capturing usage data across instrument and implant trays, OpFlow can assist in realizing opportunity for reduced instruments and trays for each procedure. Holding vendors accountable creates awareness to these inefficiencies and provides significant value to the hospital and the vendor.

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Utilization

  • Identify specific trays that are pulled, opened, and used by procedure.

  • The OpFlow process can reduce overall number of trays pulled and opened to reduce sterilization cost.

Rationalization

  • Identify which instruments are used per procedure and surgeon by tray.

  • The OpFlow process enables the vendor to streamline those trays to more accurately match procedural needs.

Inventory Management

  • Aligns the procedure volume with the required trays to ensure sufficient, but not an excess of trays are stored on-site for cases.

  • Reducing overall sterilize storage space on-site is beneficial to the hospital and vendor.