SafetySurveillor frees infection control nurses to spend time educating staff
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St. Elizabeth Medical Center, a not-for-profit Catholic healthcare system, serves Greater Cincinnati, Northern Kentucky and Southern Ohio. Founded in 1861, it has three campuses: South in Edgewood, North in Covington, and Grant County in Williamstown.
Situation:
For years, one of the biggest challenges for infection preventionists and control practitioners has been being able to handle infection surveillance hospital-wide as efficiently as possible so there is plenty of time to spend educating staff and patients.
Solution:
St. Elizabeth Healthcare installed SafetySurveillor®, a comprehensive Web-based solution for automated infection control, surveillance and medication management.
“I think the most important success stories are the ones we will never know
about. I am talking about the patients who did NOT acquire an infection because
we were armed with important epidemiologic information much earlier than we
would have been in the past without this tool, and we could get out of our
offices and do something about it. I’m talking about the ones that were spared
an infection because we in Infection Control had the time to educate a group of
healthcare workers out on the units when we would not have had the time to do
that before. I could go on and on, but I honestly believe this to be true.
This product is not perfect and does not make my life perfect, but it has
enabled me to be practice much better than ever before, and the important thing
is that it is improving all the time.”
Patricia Burns, BSN, RN, CIC
Infection Control Coordinator
St. Elizabeth Medical Center
Edgewood, KY