Benefits

Although the bottom line of Defensive Monitoring™ is an improvement in quality of care, it also protects your hospital’s bottom line. Defensive Monitoring can assist your hospital in preventing lower cash reimbursements due to new CMS regulations. By avoiding failure-to-rescue events through early detection and notification, your hospital will avoid the costs of ICU admissions, realize better bed utilization and comply with The Joint Commission National Patient Safety Goals.

Benefits for Directors of Nursing

• Recognize and prevent negative clinical outcomes before they occur with patients who have not been monitored historically
• Raise your awareness of the four key triggers you are already using to initiate a rapid response event
• Provide your nurses with an effective way to provide care to patients in a nursing-challenged area
• Use innovative technology to streamline the efficiency of monitoring (managing) a non-traditionally monitored patient
• Surveillance for your traditionally non-monitored patients, giving you a proactive response versus reactive
• Improve your current patient care levels by concentrating on the medical surgery/high-acuity population
• Improve the effectiveness in deploying rapid response teams resulting in improved patient safety and better care for your patient

Benefits for Administrators

• Improve quality, reduce length of stay, and improve financial performance
• Raise your quality initiatives on the medical surgery floors without the need of adding additional staff. This tool will also have financial impact on your institution—throughput, ALOS, and reimbursement
• Help prevent patients from moving from low-cost to high-cost areas of care
• Minimize the costs associated with non-reimbursed complications in your facility
• Reduce costs and streamline nurse efficiency for the non-traditionally monitored patient
• Cost containment as acuity levels increase throughout your medical center
• Increase patient care and benefit by reducing ALOS and adverse effects
• Improve the effectiveness of deploying rapid response teams, resulting in improved patient safety and a reduced length of stay for your patient