ONTARIOBUYS
OR SC Pilot Program
The BPS Supply Chain Secretariat and the OHA are working together to launch the Operating Room Supply Chain (OR SC) pilot program. Limited funding is being offered for the 2007-08 fiscal year to individual hospitals that are interested in targeting improvements in their operating room supply chain. The objective of this program is to assist hospitals to achieve benefits that can be garnered through select improvements:
- Sufficient instrumentation and supplies to support the Operating Room schedule
- Separate physical supports for clean and soiled instrumentation and supplies
- Supply Management
- Standardization of instrumentation and supplies
- Standardization of vendors
- Access management policies for vendors
- Standardization of packaging
Each of these process enhancements addresses specific leading practices as identified in the Surgical Process Analysis and Improvement Expert Panel Report and OntarioBuys’ A Leading Practices Compendium. For a complete list of project types and descriptions, please see Appendix A.
