As studies have shown, monitoring adherence to hand-hygiene protocols is important and the correlation between proper hand hygiene and infection rates in hospitals is well documented. Automated hand-hygiene compliance monitoring (HHCM) systems continue to evolve to offer improved capabilities and advanced analytics that help drive effective change management, reduce the spread of infection, and enhance patient safety. With more than 1,500 sensors dedicated to hand hygiene compliance at Cortellucci Vaughan Hospital, the new hospital is proactively preventing costly healthcare-associated infections. Not only does the solution reduce infection rates, it also offers automated compliance reports without dedicating resources to manual data collection and eliminates the need to invest in less reliable manual observation.

In addition to HHCM, automating nurse call systems is a relatively simple solution that delivers outsized benefits. Improving any clinical workflow process stands to increase operational efficiency, and call systems are one of a few universal tools impacting the majority of nurses, regardless of their specialty. Cortellucci Vaughan Hospital uses the RTLS-enabled nurse call solution to strengthen communication between nurses and patients, streamline reporting, and gain actionable analytics to identify ways to improve processes and procedures.


Environment
In its time as a temporary pandemic solution, more than 500 patients were transferred to Cortellucci Vaughan Hospital from surrounding hospitals overwhelmed with COVID-19 patients. Around the same time period - and to the relief of healthcare professionals around the world - COVID-19 vaccines began hitting the market. Two of the first variations from Moderna and Pfizer came with strict storage requirements that drove attention to and demand for reliable temperature monitoring solutions.

Cortellucci Vaughan Hospital deployed wireless CenTrak sensors throughout the facility to monitor the temperature of vaccines, medications, biological specimens, and more. As part of a fully integrated RTLS solution, the sensors will trigger alerts when temperatures fall outside of preset parameters. This sort of automated temperature monitoring ensures products remain safe and effective, reduces unnecessary loss, and enables healthcare leaders to maintain compliance without dedicating resources to manual data collection or time-consuming reports.

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