PDC Hosts 7th Annual Brady Walk for Community to Raise Money for Local Charities
PDC joined the other Brady Corporation locations around the U.S. for the Annual Brady Walk for Community event to benefit local charities. On May 25, 2017, PDC's employees in Valencia, California and Port Orange, Florida laced up their sneakers and walked laps for a total $10,000 donated by Brady Corporation to The Michael Hoefflin Foundation, American Diabetes Association, and...
Do You Know Who is Roaming Your Halls?
Public arenas everywhere have cracked down on security, so why is healthcare so far behind this prominent trend? As a public institution, hospitals usher in dozens or hundreds of visitors every day, which include people from every walk of life who may be in distress as they cope with a loved one’s medical emergency. According to the International Association...
MA Nurses Support Bill to Protect Healthcare Workers
EDITOR’S NOTE: Hospitals and healthcare facilities are more susceptible to workplace violence than any other industry. In response to this growing epidemic, the Massachusetts Nurses Association is speaking out against the increasing workplace violence they face on a daily basis, by pushing for a state bill targeted at reducing workplace violence. A couple of states have either passed, or...
Joint Commission: 3 Tips on Preventing Workplace Violence
EDITOR’S NOTE: Ann Scott Blouin, RN, PhD, FACHE, and Executive Vice President of The Joint Commission, shares three practical methods for preventing workplace violence in hospitals and healthcare facilities. As safety concerns for nurses and healthcare clinicians continue to rise, it is important to be armed with as many resources as possible, so effective policies can be put into...
Patient Safety is the Focus of Every Employee at East Georgia Regional Medical Center
Patient safety is at the forefront of mind for staff members at East Georgia Regional Medical Center. The facility recently switched to a bar coding patient & specimen identification system, from its previous handwritten system. The automated, bar coding system has greatly helped the facility improve its medication dispensing error rate. Read the full story below.
Promoting Patient Safety During Hospital Stay: An Interview with JFK Medical Center’s Robert Bayly, MD
EDITOR’S NOTE: Robert Bayly, M.D., explains how the adoption of evidence-based protocols – like electronic medical records (EMRs) – can help avoid many preventable mistakes that are greatly improving patient safety. story originally featured on NJ.com, published Aug. 17, 2015 As vice president of quality and patient safety at JFK Medical Center in Edison, Robert Bayly, M.D., draws on everything from the latest scientific research...
Intermountain Healthcare Standardizes Purchasing & Improves Patient Safety
The Challenge Located in Utah and southeastern Idaho, Intermountain Healthcare is a nonprofit system of 22 hospitals and a Medical Group with more than 185 physician clinics. Without a standardized system in place, multiple departments at Intermountain Healthcare purchased similar patient ID products from a variety of suppliers. This led to an overabundance of SKUs, increased supply costs, and inconsistency between products that impacted...
Good News: Hospital Pharmacists are Taking on a Greater Role in Patient Care
EDITOR’S NOTE: Some positive new trends among hospital pharmacists are on the rise including improved medication-use practices. Read the full story below for the updates on smart infusion pumps, newly implemented EHRs, and more. Story originally featured on DrugTopics.com, published July 20, 2015 Hospital pharmacists are taking a greater role in patient care, performing more medication-related patient transition-of-care (TOC) interventions, 24/7 medication order review,...
BCMA Helping to Maintain More Than 95% Compliance in Medication Administration
EDITOR’S NOTE: Bar Code Medication Administration (BCMA) is helping hospitals nationwide reduce medication errors and improve patient safety. Is your hospital using a BCMA system? If so, are protocols always properly followed to help ensure the system’s integrity? UC Hospital’s testimonial below outlines the benefits a BCMA can add to your facility today. Story originally featured on UCHospitals.EDU, published June 23, 2015 As part of our ongoing...
How One Hospital Protected Newborn Babies from Medical Errors—Just by Changing Their Wristbands
EDITOR’S NOTE: Patient ID Wristbands in the NICU are designed to positively identify each individual patient, every time. Learn how to prevent thousands of mistakes by simply printing a label and applying it to a NICU patient’s wristband. Check out the full story below. Story originally featured on Vox.com, published July 25, 2015 In 2013, researchers working at a Milwaukee hospital made a simple...
