VERDA Water Quality Systems will attend the Health Care Facilities Innovation Conference in Minneapolis from August 2–5, 2026. We will join health care Facilities leaders from across the country to discuss reliability, resilience, operational risk, and the downstream impact of SPD water quality.
This year’s conference will focus on the pressures Facilities teams manage every day. Topics include operational resilience, capital planning, maintenance reliability, risk management, compliance, infrastructure data, and long-term facility performance.
VERDA Water Quality Systems will be represented by Len Sparks, Chief Operations Officer; Nu Huynh, Senior Product Manager; and Kenneth Mayer, Director of Marketing.
Supporting Facilities leaders’ management of SPD water quality requires a thorough understanding of its impact on everything downstream.
SPD Water Is a Facilities Issue
SPD water quality is often discussed in terms of medical device processing and industry standards but that’s only part of the story.
When water quality falls short, the effects can spread well beyond Sterile Processing. Poor water can contribute to equipment problems, increased maintenance, instrument damage, inconsistent processing, staff delays, and operating room disruptions.
As a result, what begins as a water issue can become a larger operational and financial problem.
Facilities professionals understand these connections. They manage infrastructure, maintenance demands, capital priorities, risk, and continuity. Therefore, their perspective is essential when hospitals build or improve an SPD water program.
A successful program must must work within the realities of hospital operations.
A Conference Focused on Reliability and Resilience
The HFIC agenda reflects many of the same pressures that shape SPD water decisions.
Featured sessions will address reliability-centered maintenance, smarter capital decisions, operational handover, asset data, risk communication, facility resilience, and changing regulations.
Although these topics cover different areas, they share one central question:
How can health care organizations build systems that perform reliably under real-world conditions?
At VERDA, we believe that question also applies to SPD water.
A water system should not simply meet a specification during a single test. Instead, it should support consistent processing over time. It should also provide useful data, identify developing problems, and help teams prevent avoidable downstream costs.
Start Monday Morning with VERDA
VERDA is the exclusive sponsor of the Monday Coffee Break near the General Session area.
We will be there to meet attendees and hear directly from Facilities professionals. We want to learn more about the pressures they face and how they view the role of SPD water within the larger health care environment.
Attendees will also see VERDA in several other places throughout the event, including:
- signage
- in the conference app
- Monday’s attendee email
- A brief survey focused on the Facilities’ perspective
These touchpoints support a larger conversation. We want to understand where responsibility for SPD water sits today. We also want to learn which downstream effects matter most to Facilities teams, what makes improvement difficult, and what information leaders need to make stronger decisions.
Help Us Understand the Facilities Perspective
Better solutions begin with a better understanding of the people who manage the systems behind patient care.
If you are attending HFIC 2026, stop by the Monday Coffee Break and meet the VERDA team. Tell us where SPD water fits among your facility priorities. Share the challenges your team is facing. Most importantly, help us understand what the water quality industry needs to know about health care facility management.
We look forward to listening.
Join Us at the Health Care Facilities Innovation Conference!