Healthcare Purchasing News exclusively has recognized and honored central service/sterile processing and distribution departments for 30 consecutive years. Your department could be the one that begins the fourth decade of recognition, but you won’t know unless you nominate your team for HPN's 2023 SPD Department of the Year award to be featured in the May 2023 edition of the magazine!
Deadline: February 28
Document your accomplishments and submit to [email protected].
Nomination requirement details below:
Entries will be evaluated on elements disclosed in writing or provided in the following 5 areas:
Customer service - How the department has handled supply processing and distribution for internal customers, including the operating room and nursing floors.
Productivity - How the department has increased output, improved service levels, and enhanced quality, cost savings, and patient benefits. Has use of technology helped contribute to productivity improvements?
Teamwork - How well department staff members work together; how they work to make the department greater than the sum of its parts.
Education and training - How well the department prepares staff members to do a safe, cost-effective, efficient job; how well it prepares members for career advancement.
Strategic outlook - Does the department have a strategic plan? What does it entail? What are its elements of innovation, creativity, and originality?
There are no limits on the length of your entry, but please provide quantitative support for any claims made.
A judging panel of respected SPD professionals from across the country, as well as selected SPD experts on our editorial advisory board and our HPN editorial staff will evaluate each nomination.
For the nomination, highlight specific, measurable achievements and goals over the past year. Also include your name, telephone number, number of full-time equivalents, scope of responsibilities, and number of beds at the facility.
To qualify nominees MUST comply with the following rules:
- Only nominations submitted exclusively and originally to HPN and not to any other publication or association awards for any aspect of SPD, will be considered. If you plan to submit or have submitted your case study as a nomination to other organizations (in print or online) in addition to HPN, we ask that you make a choice between HPN and those other organizations.
- All nominations must focus on team-driven contributions and results more heavily than outsourced/purchased services to consultants, distributors, GPOs, manufacturers and software companies. Basically, emphasize what your team has accomplished over what a third-party vendor did for you.
- All nominations must include relevant details on how some of your supply and service partners (manufacturers, distributors, GPOs, software companies and consultants) have contributed to your group’s development, growth and success. What did each of these key vendor partners do for/with you that mattered? Brag about what makes each of them useful and how they help /have helped your team succeed. Please identify each supplier/service company by name and include a sentence or two on what each did.
- All nominated organization must be willing to share information regarding surgical volumes, annual performance and production details including number of instruments processed.
- Finally, all nominations submitted to HPN become the property of HPN for use in editorial and promotional purposes in perpetuity and shall not be submitted or used anywhere else for any reason without the expressed written consent of HPN’s publisher.
IMPORTANT: ONCE AN ORGANIZATION HAS BEEN HONORED AND PROFILED FOR THIS AWARD IT IS NOT ELIGIBLE TO BE RENOMINATED. CHECK THE LIST FOR THOSE THAT HAVE BEEN HONORED AND RECOGNIZED TO DATE.
Document your accomplishments and submit to [email protected].
Deadline: February 28
Read about the Winners
2023 - Dayton Children's Hospital
2022 - NorthShore
2021 - Bayhealth
2020 - M Health Fairview
2019- Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia
2019 Runner-up
Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital
2018 - Advocate Christ Medical Center
2018 Finalists
St. Luke’s University Health Network, Bethlehem, PA
Florida Hospital, Orlando, FL
Community Memorial Hospital, Ventura, CA
2017 - LeeSar
2017 Finalists
Stony Brook (NY) University Hospital
University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics, Iowa City, IA
Wesley Healthcare, Wichita, KS
2016 - Jewish Hospital, Lewisville, KY
2016 Finalists
The University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics Central Sterilizing Services, Iowa City, IA
Texas Health Harris Methodist Fort Worth (TX) Sterile Processing Williamsport (PA) Regional Medical Center-Susquehanna Health Sterile Processing
2015 - Silver Cross Hospital
2014 - Sanford Medical Center Fargo
2014 Finalists
North Mississippi Medical Center, Tupelo, MS
Silver Cross Hospital, New Lenox, IL
2013 - Peninsula Regional Medical Center
2013 Finalists
Exeter (NH) Hospital
North Mississippi Medical Center, Tupelo, MS
Rush University Medical Center, Chicago
Sanford USD Medical Center, Sioux Falls, SD
2012 - Florida Hospital Altamonte
2012 Finalist
Memorial Hermann TMC, Houston
2011 - H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center & Research Institute, Tampa, FL
2011 Finalists
Medical Center of the Rockies, Loveland, CO
The Methodist Hospital, Houston
2010 - Community Medical Center, TomsRiver, NJ
2010 Finalists
Kettering (OH) Medical Center
Memorial Hospital, York, PA
New England Baptist Hospital, Boston
2009 – Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center, Lebanon, NH
2009 Finalists
CoxHealth, Springfield, MO
Fletcher Allen Health Care
2008 – Christiana Care Health System, Newark, DE
2008 Finalists
Hospital for Special Surgery, New York
University of Utah Health Care, Salt Lake City
2007 – Centra Health, Lynchburg, VA
2007 Finalists
Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital, New Brunswick, NJ
University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, TX
Yuma (AZ) Regional Medical Center
2006 – NYU Medical Center, New York
2006 Finalist
Gundersen Lutheran Health Systems, La Crosse, WI
Heart of Lancaster Regional Medical Center, Lititz, PA
Yuma (AZ) Regional Medical Center
2005 – Reid Hospital & Health Care Services, Richmond, IN
2005 Finalists
Hamot Medical Center, Erie, PA
Poudre Valley Health System, Fort Collins, CO
2004 – Virginia Mason Medical Center, Seattle, WA
2004 Finalists
Boone Hospital Center, Columbia, MO
F.F. Thompson Hospital, Canandaigua, NY
Newport (RI) Hospital
Southwest General Health Center, Middleburg Heights, OH
2003 – Ohio MedCentral, Mansfield, OH
2002 – Cleveland (OH) Clinic
2001 – Via Christi Regional Medical Center, Wichita, KS
2000 – Cox Health Systems,Springfield, MO
1999 – The Children’s Hospital, Denver, CO
1998 – St. Marys Health Center, Jefferson City, MO
1997 – Parkview Hospital, Fort Wayne, IN
1996 – St Vincent Medical Center, Worcester, MA
1995 – Kaiser Permanente, Bellflower, CA
1994 – Sarasota (FL) Memorial Hospital
1993 – South Georgia Medical Center, Valdosta, GA
