Vigi Awards Seven hospital recognized for patient safety

 Seven sanatorium structures are diagnosed for their exquisite commitments to patient protection and success in implementing scientific surveillance programs

MINNEAPOLIS,  VigiLanz, a medical surveillance company, today announced the winners of its annual Vigi Awards, which honor revolutionary hospitals around the country. This year, seven clinic structures are diagnosed for their exemplary affected person protection achievements and their profitable implementation of strong clinical surveillance programs.

VigiLanz's annual Vigi Awards are designed to apprehend how customers' vigilance has contributed to healthier hospitals. VigiLanz customers have the chance to nominate persons or teams who have gone above and beyond to power ideal and revolutionary makes use of of VigiLanz to support affected person care. Winners get hold of a donation to a charity of their choice. This year's winners are:

Mount Sinai Beth Israel of the Mount Sinai Health System, New York, NY

Recognized for: Creating novel, new reports with VigiLanz main to affected person care enhancements which includes a 75% limit in the fee of catheter-associated urinary tract infections (CAUTIs) and a significant reduction in central line-associated bloodstream contamination (CLABSIs), as well as good sized cost financial savings and a faster contamination prevention response to the first surge of COVID-19 patients in New York City.

EvergreenHealth, Kirkland, WA

Recognized for: Fully using VigiLanz to make considerable care improvements, together with hospital-wide savings in surgical web site infections (SSIs) and standardized contamination ratios (SIRs), reducing each with the aid of 75% over the remaining six months of 2019 .

SCL Health, Broomfield, CO; SCL Health St. Vincent, Billings, MT

Recognized for:

Reducing the readmission rate of patients discharged from the emergency branch with an contamination thru implementation of a new process, supported with the aid of VigiLanz, that allows pharmacists to rapidly discover and attain out to discharged sufferers who may benefit from an alternate antibiotic

Faster identification of infections and precise enterprise-level monitoring, which includes the implementation of system-level healthcare-associated infection (HAI) dashboards that are instrumental to monitoring and evaluating contamination prevention performance across the full SCL enterprise

St. Bernards Medical Center, Jonesboro, AR

Recognized for: Innovative clinical surveillance initiatives that have had a huge impact on affected person care, including:

Decreasing the charge of vancomycin-induced acute kidney harm (AKI) from 10.34% to 4.79%

Decreasing large spectrum gram-negative antibiotic days of therapy per one thousand affected person days by means of 5.1%

Reducing the percentage of patients receiving greater than 50 morphine milligram equivalents (MME) per day while admitted to the health center through 3.27%

CHRISTUS Health Shreveport-Bossier, Shreveport, LA

Recognized for: Quickly imposing tremendous care enhancements all through the first 12 months of VigiLanz use to reap affected person care and effectivity improvements, leading to greater speedy identification of infections and superior compliance.

Health First Holmes Regional Medical Center, Melbourne, FL

Recognized for: New and progressive uses of VigiLanz that have added massive benefits to patients, including:

Fewer incidences of hyperglycemia (62% vs 37%) in COPD patients

Fewer incidences of extreme hypoglycemic occasions in sufferers with insulin (7% to 5%)

Optimized use of Kcentra

Northern Arizona Healthcare – Flagstaff Medical Center, Flagstaff, AZ

Recognized for: Using VigiLanz indicators to decorate care and control drug furnish shortages at some stage in the COVID-19 pandemic, including issuing indicators to applicable vendors when:

Readmitted sufferers have a records of COVID-19

Key medicines are ordered, such as Hydroxychloroquine and Remdesivir

Critical medicinal drugs in brief grant are ordered

"We had been among the first and hardest hit hospitals through COVID-19," said Kristen Bamberg, Lead Critical Care Pharmacist, Northern Arizona Healthcare. "We labored with VigiLanz to be ahead wondering about how to tackle this task whilst aiding our pharmacists, providers, nurses, and patients. This enabled us to be nimble ample to work through infinite therapeutic and workflow issues in real time. It's an honor to be diagnosed by using VigiLanz for our dedication to enhancing patient care."

"We are incredibly proud of these health center companies for their achievements," said Erik Johnson, VigiLanz's Chief Commercial Officer. "Their improvements in affected person safety, outcomes, and value financial savings are exactly why we exist as an organization. We're delighted to understand this year's Vigi Award winners and encourage others thru their success. To the winners – thank you for allowing VigiLanz to be section of your success.