The run from SPD to clinic

Current practice

Scopes and small procedure items still leave hospital SPD for satellite clinics on staff cars and unmonitored vans. Those vehicles are not controlled storage.

Why that fails

Sterility is event-related. Wet, torn, or punctured packaging is a sterility event. Mixing those items with soiled goods on the same run is cross-contamination. Lateness is not the problem.

What the standards actually say

CDC treats a broken barrier as contamination. Washington infection-control rules require hospitals to keep soiled and clean items apart during transport. AAMI ST79 is the steam standard and is thin on off-site movement. TIR109:2025 is guidance for hospital-to-clinic transport. It is not law.

There is no van temperature number in the WAC. Room storage numbers are for rooms, not cargo.

Medflow does not certify sterility. We do not make a hospital DOH-compliant. The hospital owns the policy. The run still has to stay inside it.

If that is the problem

Climate-monitored, sealed, tracked movement of those items in the Puget Sound — a climate record, a seal, and a chain of custody. Not a certification.