McLaren Northern Michigan Deploys Vocera Solutions Across the Smart Hospital
31 Agosto 2021 - 7:01AM
Business Wire
Local community funds future of caring and
communication at new Offield Family Pavilion
Vocera Communications, Inc. (NYSE:VCRA), a recognized leader in
clinical communication and workflow, today announced that McLaren
Northern Michigan has deployed Vocera solutions to connect care
teams across the hospital, including its new 182,000-square-foot
Offield Family Pavilion. The new hospital wing, which features 104
private inpatient rooms in a new intensive care unit (ICU),
cardiovascular unit, and surgical unit, boasts many technologies
and innovative services, many of which were funded by local
donations to enhance the patient and staff experience.
“We are fortunate to have a caring and supportive community that
enabled us to implement essential solutions and build a modern
facility to match our world-class care,” said Jennifer Woods, MSN,
RN, CENP, Chief Nursing Officer and Vice President of Patient Care
Services at McLaren Northern Michigan. “Our clinicians and staff
deserve the best tools and technologies.”
Focusing on the safety and well-being of their staff and
community, a multi-disciplinary team of leaders at McLaren Northern
Michigan partnered to ensure the right infrastructure was in place
to build an ideal working and healing environment. A critical
foundation of the project, called “Building the Future of Health
Care,” focused on creating an intelligent ecosystem of connectivity
and transparency. McLaren Health Care System chose Vocera solutions
to standardize care team collaboration and communication at every
point of care.
At McLaren Northern Michigan nurses, physicians and other care
team members throughout the hospital are equipped with the Vocera
Vina smartphone application and the wearable, voice-controlled
Vocera Smartbadge to quickly communicate and collaborate. The
intuitive Vocera Smartbadge and Vina app enable healthcare workers
to connect quickly with the right person or group using simple
voice commands like “call 201 nurse,” “call ICU pharmacist” or
“call trauma team.” The mobile solutions also enable team members
to send and receive secure messages and easily manage alert and
alarm notifications. The Vocera Engage intelligent workflow engine
prioritizes and routes notifications with actionable information to
the right clinician on their device of choice, including the
Spectralink Versity smartphone running the Vina app.
Care team members can also reach safety and security personnel
instantly with the dedicated panic buttons on the Vocera Smartbadge
and Spectralink Versity. Additionally, McLaren Northern Michigan is
actively working to integrate the Vocera solutions with the
hospital’s real time location system (RTLS), nurse call,
physiologic monitors, digital whiteboards, electronic health record
(EHR) system, and smart beds to simplify workflows, reduce
interruptions, mitigate cognitive overload, and speed up response
times.
“Vocera provides an excellent platform for safe and efficient
clinical communication and advanced integrated workflows,” Shari
Schult, MSN, RN, Vice President of Operations at McLaren Northern
Michigan said. “We are very proud of the hospital we built and the
many technologically advanced solutions we implemented to best
serve our patients today and into the future.”
About McLaren Northern Michigan
McLaren Northern Michigan is a 202-bed regional hospital located
in Petoskey, Michigan serving residents in 22 counties across
northern Michigan and the eastern part of the Upper Peninsula. More
than 230 physicians represent nearly all medical and surgical
specialties, enabling full-service care with an emphasis on
cardiology, cancer, orthopedics, and neurosciences. McLaren
Northern Michigan has a network of primary care providers and
specialty care clinics throughout the region, and an outpatient
surgery center in Cheboygan. It has achieved Magnet® status for
nursing excellence, been named a Top 50 heart hospital and Top 100
Hospital in the U.S. by IBM/Watson Health, and received the highest
national ratings from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid
Services for quality and safety. For more information, visit
www.mclaren.org.
About Vocera
The mission of Vocera Communications, Inc. is to improve the
lives of healthcare professionals, patients, and families. Founded
in 2000, Vocera provides solutions that help protect and connect
team members, simplify workflows, increase efficiency, enhance
quality of care and safety, and humanize the healthcare experience.
More than 2,300 facilities worldwide, including nearly 1,900
hospitals and healthcare facilities, have selected Vocera solutions
to enable their workforce to communicate and collaborate with
co-workers and engage with patients and families. Mobile workers
can choose the right device for their role or task, including
smartphones or one of the company’s wearable communication devices,
and use voice commands to easily reach people by name, role, or
group. The hands-free Vocera Smartbadge was named to TIME’s list of
the 100 Best Inventions of 2020. Vocera solutions can integrate
with more than 150 clinical and operational systems, including
electronic health records, nurse call systems, ventilators,
physiological monitors, and more. In addition to healthcare, Vocera
solutions are found in aged care facilities, veterinary hospitals,
schools, luxury hotels, retail stores, power facilities, and more.
Visit www.vocera.com to learn more, and follow @VoceraComm on
Twitter.
Vocera® and the Vocera logo are trademarks of Vocera
Communications, Inc. registered in the United States and other
jurisdictions. All other trademarks appearing in this release are
the property of their respective owners.
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