Dr. Jake Tayler Jacobs

And at the end,

You get a score.

You get a clear picture of how severe your operational blindness is and where the biggest gaps are hiding.

No cost, no commitment, just clarity.

Go to SipsHealthcare.com forward slash assessment.

Take it yourself.

Have your SPD director take it.

Have your OR director take it separately and compare answers.

That alone will tell you something.

at least knowing where you're blind or the fact that you are blind will allow for you to see that in most cases, not the people, most people want to do a good job.

In most cases, it's because we're operationally blind somewhere and the metrics that we have been fundamentally using for 20 and 30 years may not be the right metrics to go by.

Now, the healthcare parallel with IBM, because I have to bring this home back to healthcare, particularly in sterile processing,

We have our own invisible beliefs.

And that's just, that's deadly, honestly.

SPD will always be reactive.

I hear this constantly all over the country.

That's just the nature of the work.

Instruments come in, you process them, fires happen, you put them out, that's the job.

But it's not true.

Proactive SPD operations are possible.