HOUSTON, TX. MAY 05, 2008
Rauland-Borg provides Nurse Call to more than half of the Top 100 Hospitals listed on the Thomson Healthcare review.
Released March 2008 by Thomson Healthcare Company: The Top 100 Hospitals that provided the highest performance levels in patient safety; judged on eight patient safety measurements directly affecting Medicare patients treated in US Hospitals from 2001-2005.
How do the 100 Top Hospitals Stay on Top?
Over six years, the 100 Top Hospitals National winners consistently stayed ahead of the competition on seven out of eight of the AHRQ patient safety measures included in the study. If peer hospitals had performed as well as the 100 Top Hospitals on these eight patient safety measures alone:
- 54,700 adverse patient safety events could be avoided
- 173,000 patient hospital days could have been avoided
- $581 million dollars could have been saved
- 40,000 more patients could have survived
This study ranked the hospitals based on method indicators established by the Federal Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality. Out of the 100 Hospitals listed, Rauland Responder Nurse Call is installed in more than half, indicating testimonial achievement that our Responder Systems help assist to improve advance workflow performance and patient safety within our customer’s hospitals. To review the article go to http://www.100tophospitals.com.
About Rauland-Borg
For over 70 years, Rauland-Borg has been an industry leader in the design and manufacture of communications and life-safety equipment for institutional environments.
Responder® IV
The most advanced nurse/patient communications system available today. Along with all traditional nurse call functions, Responder IV offers fully engineered integration capabilities with today's most popular hospital communication technologies. These include pocket paging, wired and wireless telephone systems, infrared staff and equipment location, and MIS/ADT software applications.
Responder NET
Responder NET takes Responder IV's performance and reliability a giant step forward by harnessing the power of a user-friendly PC interface to help staff meet the growing demands of patient care. This network based solution offers easy staff sign-on, an intuitive staff scheduler, simple bed management system, and real-time patient/staff information for 'anytime, anywhere' communications.
Responder 4000
Responder 4000 is a cost effective, feature-rich speech or non-speech nurse call communications solution that has been designed to meet the needs and budget of skilled health care facilities world-wide. The system offers an impressive array of features, including pocket paging, wireless telephones, resident check-in, management software, and integration to the Responder IV system.
About Thomson Reuters
The Thomson 100 Top Hospitals® program objectively identifies the highest performers in the nation by combining publicly available data sets and our empirical, time-tested methodologies. By highlighting what these leaders do best, we raise the bar for hospital performance each year.
The 100 Top Hospitals: National Benchmarks for Success and 100 Top Hospitals: Cardiovascular Benchmarks for Success studies identify the nation's top providers, using the two most recent years of data. These studies benchmark the industry's management and clinical outcomes.
The 100 Top Hospitals: Performance Improvement Leaders study identifies hospital management teams that have led their organizations to achieve the fastest rate of consistent annual organizational improvement over five years.
Together, these studies provide the industry's first hospital board-level tool set for comparatively assessing organizational performance against the nation's top hospitals and all others.
