Achieving 100% utilization is a crucial step in reaching your AvaSys program goals. It is possible to increase patient safety and decrease in-person observer costs when using all available cameras, […]
For those of you who might be on the fence about attending the 2nd annual AvaSure Symposium Oct. 3-5, I have three words for you: Just do it. As a […]
By now you know you’re welcome to attend the 2nd Annual AvaSure Symposium. With the promise of hot-topic sessions such as nurse safety, suicide ideation and monitoring patients in post-acute […]
For decades, organizations have tried to implement structures and process changes to reduce patient harm. The measure of success has been reduction in overall adverse event rates, be they falls, […]
As hospitals evaluate ways to improve patient falls, patient outcomes, advance patient safety and address staffing shortages while minimizing costs, they face a pressing concern: How can they provide 24/7 […]
The Joint Commission recently issued a Sentinel Event Alert, “Physical and verbal violence against health care workers,” which calls attention to the increasing prevalence of workplace violence in the healthcare […]
In addition to the rigorous training that AvaSys Monitor Tech (AMT) receives prior to their first day on the job, the thousands of hours they will spend watching patients on […]
With the opioid addiction epidemic only worsening, concerns for patients using illicit drugs during their hospitalization is growing. Almost daily we read reports of patients needing to be resuscitated from […]
If you ask the clinical educators at AvaSure to describe the best thing about their jobs, I am confident they would all say the same thing: “When the monitor tech makes […]
The most effective means to provide around-the-clock care for an acutely ill patient is deploying a multidisciplinary team of caregivers. For organizations that have adopted the AvaSure TeleSitter® Solution, the AvaSure […]
