Here are five notes:
1. These hospital-acquired infections can be deadly and expensive to treat.
2. About 13,000 deaths from CAUTIs and 28,000 deaths from CLABSIs occur annually, according to the CDC. Treating these two infections costs an additional $2 billion each year.
3. Orchid provides medical providers with checklists that ensure providers follow proper prevention protocol for every patient.
4. Saint Joseph’s will also use Orchid to discover the underlying causes of the infections. Orchid’s scripts address the preparedness of the environment, patient information and timeline of the catheter.
5. Orchid offers an analysis of protocol compliance rates, so executives can target where the system falls short.
“We are hoping that the efficiency brought by Orchid, including real-time data capture, the automated reporting capabilities and the pre-programmed alerting can help our organization expand the scope of our patient safety rounding program and bring positive and lasting improvements for our patients,” said Margaret Cusumano, chief nursing officer, Saint Joseph’s.
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