8816-26 - A Systematic Approach to Perioperative Success: Driving Sustainable Growth Across the OR and Reprocessing Environments

Monday, April 13, 2026

Presentation

Location: Booth 501

CE: 2 Contact Hours

Presented By

Speaker(s)

Hank Balch, CRCST, CER, CIS, CHL

Beyond Clean Consulting
Marjorie M. Wall, EDBA, MLOS, CRCST, CIS, CHL, CSSBB (she/her/hers)

Process Optimization and Customer Success
STERIS
Torrance, California, United States

Presentation Times:

Monday, 4/13/2026: 9:15am, 10:45am, 1:00pm
Tuesday, 4/14/2026: 9:30am

Safe, scalable growth across surgical care requires a measured and informed approach. Teams must understand the nuances driving surgical demand and the technological advances available to meet those demands. Whether coordinating for surgical growth in a large medical system or a freestanding ASC, many of the same principles apply, including a hard look at ways to implement data driven workflow optimization and comply with regulatory requirements for safe patient care. Staff engagement and leadership guidance is also essential. Read on to gain insights into the evolving market trends impacting surgical services and sterile processing, and the proven strategies to scale for this growth by aligning expertise between an interdisciplinary team of sterile processing and perioperative professionals.

Learning Objectives:

Describe how perioperative growth trends—including increased surgical volume, robotics expansion, and shifting care sites—impact sterile processing capacity and workflow requirements
Identify strategies that integrate reprocessing, facility planning, and technological tools to ensure safe, scalable support for OR and ASC procedural growth
Explain how staffing, competency development, and data driven workflow optimization strengthen the alignment between SPD operations and evolving perioperative service needs