• The Asia Pacific Society of Infection Control (APSIC) is a multi-national, voluntary, organization dedicated to the advancement of infection prevention and control.

• APSIC’s CSSD Centre of Excellence Program for Central Sterile Supply Services (CSSDs) program offers an opportunity for CSSD staff to share their experiences, be audited by an expert panel and participate in an APSIC and 3M Education Event.

• Center of Excellence (COE) is a team of people (CSSD, Infection Control, Operating Room) that promotes collaboration, use of standards/ guidelines (AAMI ST79) and best practices to deliver quality disinfection and sterilization services for those served.

• At APSIC and 3M, it define a CSSD as a Center of Excellence when it fulfills the following strategic criteria:

• Delivers quality disinfection and sterilization services• Committed to education and research• Takes a leadership role to help and support other CSSD institutions in their

implementation of CSSD education programs• Follows the APSIC Self Assessment Framework and AAMI ST79:2010/A3:2012

(Comprehensive guide to steam sterilization and sterility assurance in health care facilities)

Certification Sharing of APSIC Centre of Excellence

Fang-Chi SHEN1, Tzu-Ling LIU2

1Supervisor, Nursing Department, Hualien Tzu Chi Hospital2IAHCSMM TW chapter (TAHMSS)

Conclusion• The checklist is a wonderful tool for us to prepare any accreditation; it

let us know where we need to improve. • Success needs teamwork; it needs the effort of CSR, OR and Infection

Control Department. Thanks to all for their effort.

• We passed the self-assessment step and became one of 11 finalists from Taiwan (2), Thailand (4), Singapore (2), India (3) in 2013-2014 COE program for audit visit.

• We received a Bronze Qualifier, awarded June 27, 2015.

Audit Visit March 21, 2014

Introduction

Introduction

Field audit

Document review

APSIC Checklist• We downloaded the Chinese version

of the COE checklist from Infection Control Society of Taiwan (a member of APSIC).

• We prepared the audit according to the detail on the checklist.

APSIC COE Expert Review Panel