Beacon Health Memorial Hospital Implements Successful Virtual Sitting Program:
Zero Adverse Events Found in Study of 500+ Patients. In a proactive approach, Beacon
Health Memorial Hospital assembled a dedicated multi-disciplinary team of frontline staff.
This team thoroughly assessed their existing procedures, developed new policies, and
implemented a stringent patient selection process using the Columbia Suicide Severity
Risk Scale (C-SSRS) for eligibility criteria. Conducting their study across two hospitals
and involving over 500 patients, their implementation of the TeleSitter solution yielded
impressive results: zero adverse events reported.
Topic: Patient Safety
Stuck In the Past
Modern Healthcare Executive Insight with AvaSure CEO and Founder Brad Playford
AvaSure’s AvaSys Solution lowers costs, improves patient safety and enhances staff engagement.TeleSitting® is an evidence-based, data-driven, and very cost-efficient solution to provision care for patients in need of continuous observation. Read the full article to learn more.
Effort Continues to Prevent Patient Falls within Phoebe Putney Health System
ALBANY — The Phoebe Putney Memorial Hospital Board of Directors got its first look Wednesday at a new piece of technology meant to help prevent patient falls.
The AvaSys Telesitter® program, which has 12 units between the main hospital and Phoebe North, works by putting more eyes on patients.
Equipped with an infrared camera and two-way audio, it is set up in rooms of patients identified as high risk for falls. One technician can monitor live feeds on the units from those rooms at a central station.
If a patient tries to get out of bed, the observer can interact with the patient with a reminder to wait for assistance or sound an alarm for immediate staff attention. Patients in imminent danger receive an alarm, which signals the staff to head quickly to the patient’s room.
“Within seconds, someone is in the room,” April Little, a central staff manager for Phoebe Putney Health System, said of the alarm.
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TeleSitter® System Keeping Patients Safe
LAKE CHARLES, LA (KPLC) – Patient safety is paramount in hospital settings and traditionally, it has taken one-to-one care 24 hours a day for some of the most at-risk patients.
That can tie up skilled nursing staff from other demands and that is why a new video monitoring system has been launched at Lake Charles Memorial Hospital.
It is called the AvaSure Telesitter® Solution and through a two-way audio system, video camera, and central monitoring station, Memorial nurse manager, Tressy Bergeron, is able to keep an eye and ear on up to 12 patients at one time.
S.C. Hospital Uses Innovative System to Keep Patients Safe
AvaSure at Carle Foundation Hospital