Hi, I’m
Stacey Brown
Jacksonville,FL
Summary
Sterile Processing leader with extensive experience overseeing department operations, regulatory compliance, and quality assurance in complex healthcare environments. Expertise in decontamination, sterilization, surgical instrumentation, and inventory management, ensuring strict adherence to patient safety and industry standards. Proven ability to lead and develop high-performing teams, optimize workflows, and drive continuous improvement. Recognized for strengthening perioperative alignment, enhancing operational efficiency, and delivering consistent, results-driven outcomes.
Overview
32
years of professional experience
4
Certification
Work History
Baptist Medical Center
Sterile Processing Manager
09.2021 - 09.2025
Job overview
- Responsible for managing multiple arenas including surgery centers and sister hospitals
- Managing staff, preparing work schedules and assigning specific duties to leaders within the department
- Responsible for staffing budget and fiscal year budget.
- Including utilizing students
- Replacing equipment or purchasing equipment to help with workflow
- New Ultrasonic
- New Decontamination Sinks
- New Workstations
- Implementing policies and procedures, goals, and objectives. This includes introducing new processing procedures to help facilitate turnover. Introducing the One Tray, implementing policy, procedure and competencies.
- Implementing new workflow that helped in providing instrumentation for surgeries
- Scanning stations
- Adding Navigators – to help with workflow in the decontamination area
- Documentation area – allowing two step process in assuring instrumentation is processed according to standards.
- Establishing processes that has been implemented throughout the Baptist Health System
- Implementing work study internship for surgical tech and sterile processing tech students
- Providing opportunities for students to work within SPD to help with educating them with the proper procedures within SPD and the ORs.
- Key player in working with Materials Management in initiating workflow process from receiving to Sterile Processing
- Worked with staff in understanding how important supplies are received in a timely manner
- Educating receiving staff on tracking supplies, especially those from vendors without purchase orders
- Implemented staging area that would allow for vendors to retrieve products
Flagler Hospital UF Health
Sterile Processing Manager
07.2013 - 09.2021
Job overview
- Managing staff, preparing work schedules and assigning specific duties.
- Establish and implement departmental policies, goals, objectives, and procedures. Conferring with board members, organizational officials, and staff members as necessary.
- Determine staffing requirements. Interviewing, hiring and providing training process for new employees and overseeing those personnel processes.
- Providing staff with assistance in performing difficult or complicated duties.
- Processing requisitions for supplies and equipment.
- Improved tracking system – updating current system to track all steps in the process of Sterile Processing
- Responsible for implementing new process of transporting decontaminated instrumentation from different departments. Includes education and training.
- Developed a Sterile Processing Matrix
- Determine the compliance of each employee
- Adherence to policy and procedure
- Develop goals when individuals are not up to standards
- Developed a new transportation process for sterile instruments between facilities
- Involving renovation of the Sterile Processing Department and Operating Room Sterile Core
- Training staff on picking cases
- Integrating tracking system with the Sterile Processing Department
- Implementing LEAN process to lessen waste within the Operating Room and the Sterile Processing Department
- Decreasing tray size – includes lowering weight of each tray
- Combining similar trays to make it more efficient for multiple procedures
- Decreasing the loss of instrumentation
- Training OR staff on accountability of each tray used
- Implemented policy when items are lost and the consequences
- Instrumental in negotiating the removal of third-party repair and implementing service contracts for high dollar instrumentation and equipment
- Instrumental in improving turnaround time of sterile instrumentation.
Flagler Hospital
Lead Open Heart Certified Surgical Technologist
06.2003 - 01.2015
Job overview
- Responsible for starting the Open-Heart Program at Flagler Hospital, St. Augustine.
- Training of new employees, managing staffing and work schedule
- Responsible for talking to vendors about new equipment, products and supplies
- Maintaining procedure count sheets
- Order surgical supplies and equipment
St. Vincent's Medical Center
Lead Certified Surgical Technologist
11.1993 - 06.2003
Job overview
- Order surgical supplies.
- Manage staffing and work schedule
- Responsible for talking to vendors about new equipment, products and supplies
- Maintaining procedure count sheets
- Responsible for improving instrumentation trays to be more conducive
Education
National UniversitySan Diego, CA
Doctor Healthcare Administration Candidate
09-2028
Purdue Global UniversityDavenport, IA
Master of Healthcare Administration
05-2019
Kaplan UniversityDavenport, IA
Bachelor of Science Healthcare Administration
04-2016
Florida State Community CollegeJacksonville, FL
Associate Science
12-2013
Skills
- Effective staff coach
- Promote positive behavior
- Service oriented
- Dedicated to patient care
- Skilled in Microsoft Word
- Skilled in Excel
- Conflict resolution
- Budgeting and financial management
- Process improvement strategies
- Quality assurance management
- Project management experience
- Regulatory compliance
- Infection control practices
- Time management proficiency
Accomplishments
- Author of “Career Interrupted, Purpose Revealed,” published in Influential Women in 2026.
- Author of "Leading Behind the Scenes", published in Influential Women in 2026
- Author of "Strength and Wisdom," published in Influential Women in 2026
- Author of "From Broken to Blessed: Obedience, Redemption, and Ordered Steps," published in Trilogy TBN in 2026
- Supervised team of 86 staff members.
- Achieved reduction in bioburden by completing implementing QA workflow with accuracy and efficiency.
Affiliations
Association of University Programs of Health Administration (AUPHA)
American College of Healthcare Executives (ACHE)
Online Learning Consortium (OLC)
Healthcare Sterile Processing Association (HSPA)
Association of Surgical Technologists (AST)
Certification
- Certified Surgical technologist Sept 1988 current
- Certified Registered Central Service Technician Dec 2021 current
- Certified Instrument Specialist Dec 2021 current
- Certified Health Leader Dec 2021 current
Timeline
Sterile Processing Manager
Baptist Medical Center
09.2021 - 09.2025
Sterile Processing Manager
Flagler Hospital UF Health
07.2013 - 09.2021
Lead Open Heart Certified Surgical Technologist
Flagler Hospital
06.2003 - 01.2015
Lead Certified Surgical Technologist
St. Vincent's Medical Center
11.1993 - 06.2003
Purdue Global University
Master of Healthcare Administration
Kaplan University
Bachelor of Science Healthcare Administration
Florida State Community College
Associate Science
National University
Doctor Healthcare Administration Candidate
Influential Women 2026
Beyond my formal qualifications, I bring a purpose-driven leadership approach rooted in both professional excellence and personal growth. As a featured contributor in Influential Women, I have had the opportunity to share insights on leadership, resilience, and the critical role of sterile processing professionals who lead behind the scenes to ensure patient safety.
I am passionate about mentoring and developing teams, fostering a culture of accountability, collaboration, and continuous improvement. My leadership style reflects principles of high reliability, systems thinking, and servant leadership—ensuring that every process supports optimal surgical outcomes and organizational success.
Outside of my professional role, I am an author of the upcoming book From Broken to Blessed: Obedience, Redemption, and Ordered Steps, which reflects my commitment to faith, purpose, and personal transformation. I actively engage in community outreach, speaking, and professional development initiatives that empower others to grow both personally and professionally.
I also enjoy writing, public speaking, and contributing to thought leadership in healthcare, particularly in areas that elevate sterile processing as a strategic partner within perioperative services. These experiences allow me to bring a well-rounded perspective, strong communication skills, and a deep sense of purpose to every role I serve.