Medline True Stories - Acute Care

CAUTI

New Parrish Medical Center

Catheter-associated urinary tract infection (CAUTI) is one of the leading healthcare-associated infections. Parrish Medical Center, a 210-bed hospital in Titusville, FL, is partnering with Medline and its ERASE CAUTI program, featuring a “revolutionary” one-layer tray design and comprehensive education, to reach a goal of zero CAUTIs.

SuiteStyles

New Medical Center of the Rockies

By employing Medline’s color-by-discipline program, patients at the Medical Center of the Rockies can easily identify the hospital’s employees by their color-coded uniforms. Since using the program, the 136-bed facility in Loveland, CO., has seen its patient and staff satisfaction scores improve dramatically.

Pressure Ulcers

New Jennie Edmundson Memorial Hospital

Jennie Edmundson Hospital, a 225-bed hospital in Council Bluffs, IA, reduced its pressure ulcer incidence rate from nine percent to zero in 90 days with Medline’s Pressure Ulcer Prevention Program. Today, the combination of comprehensive education with best-in-class products helps keep the incidence rate at zero.

Pressure Ulcers CAUTI

New Unity Health System

Unity Hospital, a 329-bed facility in Rochester, NY, is focused on reducing hospital-acquired conditions. In particular, the hospital is partnering with Medline to implement its ERASE CAUTI and Pressure Ulcer Prevention Programs to improve quality of care and patient outcomes.

Hand Hygiene

New Oakwood Hospital

This 1,200-bed teaching facility in Dearborn, MI, has improved its hand hygiene compliance from the national average of below 50 percent to 80 percent by partnering with Medline and its Hand Hygiene Compliance Program. The clinical leadership attributes the improved compliance rates to the program’s extensive staff education and highly effective products.

Michael Turner, M.D Surgical Site Infections

New Goodman Campbell Brain and Spine

Michael Turner, M.D., Neurological Surgeon at Goodman Campbell Brain and Spine Institute in Indianapolis, IN, explains how he uses Optifoam AG to create an effective barrier between the open hair follicles, sweat glands, implants and his hands.  He also discusses how combining this practice with the use of Arglaes Film has resulted in reduced infection rates.

CDS/OR Supply Management

New Tampa General Hospital

Surgical packs are a crucial element to any successful patient operation. So when Tampa General Hospital, a 950-bed teaching hospital in Tampa, FL., decided to switch to Medline packs, the conversion had to be smooth and efficient. Learn how Medline worked with Tampa General to convert this key OR product.
CDS/OR Supply Management

South Shore Hospital

Looking to reduce costs, this 285-bed, Boston-area hospital with 14 operating rooms had the “smoothest transition they ever experienced” as Medline standardized their OR products, streamlined their case carts and redesigned their storage location.
CDS/OR Supply Management

Bloomington Hospital

Bloomington Hospital, a 297-bed facility in Bloomington, Ind., was searching for a more efficient system to organize its surgical supplies. Medline’s Complete Delivery System (CDS) was the solution as it places all the components for a surgical procedure in one container, reducing staff time picking each component for a case and improving OR turnover rate.

Pressure Ulcers

Northwest Hospital

Over the course of six months, this 230-bed Baltimore-area hospital used Medline’s Pressure Ulcer Prevention Program to drive the prevalence of hospital-acquired pressure ulcers from 26 percent to zero.
Textiles

HLS Health Care Laundry Services

Medline has partnered with HLS, the largest healthcare laundry in North America, since they went into business over 35 years ago. Medline also was there when the company was looking for help in creating a sterile processing area in 2002.
Distribution

Citrus Memorial Health System

This Inverness, FL community hospital created a partnership with Medline to help them keep on the cutting edge of new products and clinical support, while at the same time working to keep costs down.



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