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  • Float Raises $10 Million Series A to Treat Chronic Illness and Alleviate Growing Strain on our Healthcare System

     

    At a time of hospital overcrowding, rising nursing burnout and surging chronic illnesses, Float benefits patients, nurses, prescribers, pharmacies, payers and health systems

    Float, the marketplace moving all the care that doesn’t need a hospital to the home, has raised $10 million in Series A funding led by Canvas Ventures, whose General Partner Mike Ghaffary has joined Float’s board,  with participation from Wave Capital, Y Combinator, Burst Capital, and Also Capital. Several tech industry founders and leaders joined as angels, including Max Mullen, Co-founder of Instacart, Andrew Bartynski, Vice President of Strategy and Operations at ASRI, Brian Pokorny, former General Partner of SV Angel, Jed Nachman, COO of Yelp, and Brian Osborn, former VP of Marketing at Yelp.

    With $15 million in total funding, Float has the capital, talent, and technology to continue tackling a root cause of healthcare’s most pressing issues: chronic illness.

    133 million Americans suffer from a chronic illness, and that number continues to rise at an alarming rate.  Many chronic conditions, such as multiple sclerosis and other autoimmune diseases, require specialty medicines that can only be given through a needle by an experienced nurse.  To find a nurse who can administer medicines by injection or through an IV, most people head to their local hospitals, which are not built for routine care.  This has become a major contributor to hospital overcrowding, increased administrative burdens, and staffing shortages – all of which cost healthcare systems hundreds of billions of dollars every year.

    Float is a rare win for everyone — from patients, caregivers, nurses, prescribers, pharmacies, payers, health systems, and ultimately anyone in the United States. Instead of forcing patients with chronic illnesses to go to overcrowded hospitals full of sick people for routine care, Float brings the best of the hospital to their homes: highly skilled nurses who can provide personalized care.

    Founded in 2021 by former ER nurse Ryan Johnson, CEO and Christy Johnson, COO, Float has built a network of hundreds of nurses across California and Arizona. Ryan’s experience in nursing along with Christy’s background in startups and operations allowed them to recognize the massive need to scale their service to expand access to specialty infusions. Float’s customers are some of the biggest names in specialty medicine, such as Optum, CVS, Option Care, Alliance RX (Walgreen’s), Kroger, Kabafusion, Soleo Health, NuFactor, Care Fusion, CA Specialty Pharmacy, and more.

    “After years in the emergency room treating patients with chronic conditions, and from treating my dad who suffers from one, I realized that moving specialty medicine into the home would be a sea change for everyone, ” said Johnson. “Expanding access to this type of care would have a huge impact on patient outcomes, not to mention the burnout of my nurse friends exhausted by long shifts and juggling priorities. Float has proven successful in doing exactly that.”

    Proven impact:

    • Patients: Millions of people with chronic illnesses who need routine care can stay happy and healthy in their homes rather than spend their time and money going to the hospital, or even missing their treatment altogether. Float has already completed 19,000 visits and has a staffing rate of 97%.

    • Nurses:  With Float, nurses can earn extra money using their skills and free time without picking up extra shifts at a hospital. They have complete flexibility and control over their schedules and are paid 1.5-2x more than a hospital, where a shift is 12.5 hours long. Float’s nurse retention rate sits at 56%.

    • Prescribers:  Float ensures patients get quality care by improving compliance, efficacy, and affordability. Doctors see better outcomes for their patients, which encourages them to prescribe more treatments.

    • Pharmacies: Float reduces operational costs for pharmacies compared to managing in-house nursing. It also reduces administrative burdens and expedites reimbursements all while reducing chart bounceback.

    • Payers: Float makes routine medicine 12x cheaper than it would be in a hospital. Patients adhere to their treatments, which decreases the likelihood that they will be admitted for other symptoms of their disease.

    • Hospital Systems: Already overburdened without enough beds, Float removes the need to administer chronic routine medicine in the hospital, which opens up beds and allows them to focus on critical patient care.

    “I’ve spent the last decade building companies and taking startups all the way to IPO or exit,” said Mike Ghaffary, General Partner at Canvas Ventures. “This is the first time in my career that I’ve encountered a company with a solution that has so much alignment across stakeholders. We look forward to seeing how this capital can supercharge Float’s next phase of growth.”

  • Ascom Americas Report Finds Three Things Hospitals Can Do Now To Relieve The Nursing Shortage

     

    Nursing Satisfaction: What Matters Most At Work Report Released

    Ascom, a healthcare IT and clinical collaboration company, has released Nursing Satisfaction: What Matters Most At Work, a survey-based report which finds three things hospitals can do now to relieve the nursing shortage. The survey of more than 500 nurses in the U.S. was conducted in July. Ascom looked at a variety of dynamics affecting nurses today in light of the current nursing shortage and changes in the job itself.

    Based on the survey findings, hospitals can do three things now:

    1. Focus on increasing pay to make the job worth doing.

    When it comes to taking a new job at a hospital higher pay ranks #1. They say they need more competitive pay to make the job worth doing. Nurses ranked their top detractor from the nursing profession as having to care for sicker patients, which reflects the new landscape exacerbated by COVID. Today the type of patients who were in the ICU a decade ago are now on general medical-surgical floors, which leaves hospital staff members treating sicker patients who need a higher level of care. Compounding this for hospitals are the industry-wide nursing staffing shortage and having fewer experienced nurses to manage critical-care patients who need skilled care.

    2. Implement a technology strategy focusing on nursing satisfaction to attract top talent.

    Technology plays a key role in their decision to take a job and helped them do the job too. Nearly 60 percent of nurses say that a hospital’s suite of technology tools is an important factor in deciding whether to take a job at a particular hospital, and 47% say that technology is significantly enhancing and supplementing their skills as a clinician ’a great deal’ or ‘a lot.’

    3. Invest in the technology that gives nurses more time with patients and preventative care.

    “As a respiratory therapist, I understand the pressures nurses are under each day in normal circumstances, but now that the job has intensified, clinical workflow solutions technology can’t wait,” said Kelly Feist, Managing Director, Ascom Americas. “Intelligent workflow technologies are now as essential as bandages and medications. The good news is we have these kinds of solutions today.”

    Of the top things nurses say they want their technology solutions to do, they rank doing more by integrating more information from monitoring systems via nurse call as the top item.

    Read Nursing Satisfaction: What Matters Most At Work report for more information about other factors hospitals should consider to better meet the needs of nurses today.

  • Report: Post-Acute Care Industry to Have $19.5BN in Unrealized Revenue in 2022 From Reduced Staffing

     

    Data from Oliver Wyman and Mercer shows that contingent nursing labor provides healthcare facilities with a cost-effective means of operating at full census to increase revenue and positive profit margins without burning out full-time staff

    IntelyCare, a tech-enabled nurse staffing platform, announced the results of a commissioned study aimed at understanding the financial impact that the nurse staffing crisis is having on post-acute care facilities. Conducted by global management consulting leader Oliver Wyman, the study reveals that because of lower occupancy rates (down 14% since 2020) due to understaffing, the post-acute care industry is estimated to have $19.5BN in unrealized revenue by the end of 2022. With many facilities desperate to improve staffing levels to increase occupancy and drive positive profit margins, the study also provides a comparative assessment of nursing labor costs, finding that a full-time nursing employee can cost a facility up to 33% more on an hourly basis than an equivalent contingent worker.

    As organizational funding and reimbursement are tied to patient volumes, every unoccupied bed represents a loss of revenue for a healthcare facility. The inability to increase patient referrals is hitting the post-acute care space particularly hard, as occupancy rates in some U.S. regions have dropped to nearly 60% from the 72% to 87% averages seen between 2015-2019. The study suggests that the issue will be further exacerbated by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services’ (CMS) planned revisions to nursing home regulations.

    “While staffing challenges have persisted in nursing homes for decades, it has become extremely difficult since the pandemic to maintain the workforce needed to reach full census. As a result, facilities lost between $2,656 and $7,771 a day in 2020 and 2021 and are estimated to lose between $2,330 to $5,882 this year,” said Deirdre Baggot, Partner at Oliver Wyman. “To increase admissions, it’s imperative that post-acute care facilities rethink how they manage their workforce and start to spend more strategically on staffing.”

    For healthcare facilities, the study finds that supplementing full-time nursing staff with contingent labor not only provides a path to increase occupancy but is a cost-effective way of doing so. While contingent labor is perceived to come at a “premium” cost because of the often-higher wage rate, simply comparing hourly wages across contingent and full-time labor is misleading. Traditional staffing agencies and newer, tech-enabled staffing providers cover payroll taxes, recruitment and credentialing costs, retention bonuses, and a host of other expenses and benefits normally borne by healthcare facilities. The study, backed by industry data from global asset management and HR consulting firm, Mercer, found that on an hourly basis, a full-time employee costs a facility between 1.9 – 2.2x their hourly wage rate. Because of the additional expenses, the cost of filling a shift with a full-time registered nurse is 33% higher than the contingent labor rate that is being paid. For nursing assistants, the cost is 26% higher than the contingent labor rate.

    The ancillary staffing expenses can represent 36 – 43% of the total cost of a full-time employee. As demand for skilled nursing labor continues to rise in the current market, recruitment expenses can account for 13% of the total cost of a new full-time registered nurse. Health benefits are also extremely costly to employers, reaching up to the equivalent of three additional months of wages each year.

    The use of contingent nursing labor can help alleviate the burden on a healthcare facility’s full-time staff as well, minimizing attrition and turnover. According to Oliver Wyman, hours worked have increased by up to 15% across the nursing workforce due to understaffing. Nurses are now working more than the typical 36 hours per week pre-pandemic norm, while nursing assistants are working nearly 52 hours per week on average. Nearly 60% of the nursing professionals who left their jobs cited insufficient staffing as the reason for their departure. Therefore, improving staffing levels with contingent labor can enable facilities to increase job satisfaction and morale among their full-time nursing staff.

    “Post-acute care facilities have to view contingent nursing labor, or ‘agency staff,’ not as a necessary evil, but rather a strategic, cost-effective resource that positively impacts their entire workforce and bottom line,” said David Coppins, CEO and Co-Founder of IntelyCare. “Recruiting and retaining full-time nurses has become an expensive uphill battle in today’s market. By allocating 15% to 20% of their workforce to contingent labor, facilities can operate at full census to maximize their revenue and finally relieve some of the pressure on their full-time staff, ultimately improving morale and retention.”

    Get the complete report here >>
    https://www.intelycare.com/research-group/the-true-cost-of-post-acute-care-labor/

  • PerfectServe Honors Over 130 Exceptional Nurses in Second Annual ‘Nurses of Note’ Awards Program

     

    Stories from honorees, who come from 39 states and represent the very best of the nursing profession, will be shared throughout the year on PerfectServe channels

    PerfectServe®, a provider of cloud-based clinical collaboration and provider scheduling solutions, today announced the honorees of the 2022 Nurses of Note awards program. The list includes over 130 winners from 39 states, plus Australia and Canada, and represents nurses whose dedication, resilience, and devotion have been a continuous source of inspiration for others amidst the challenges presented by the COVID-19 pandemic and beyond.

    “Nurses are an indispensable portion of the healthcare industry. It is essential to recognize their services and faithfulness to the patients and systems they serve,” said Kelly Conklin, SVP and Chief Clinical Officer at PerfectServe. “As someone with over 20 years of experience in the nursing field, I understand the sacrifice and dedication it takes to be a nurse. We are honored to recognize nurses in this year’s Nurses of Note awards, and I am amazed by the stories these nurses have lived.”

    PerfectServe will highlight these nurses and their stories throughout the month of May on the company blog and across LinkedIn, Twitter, and Facebook. To further celebrate and recognize nurses beyond National Nurses Month, PerfectServe will continue to highlight honorees throughout the end of 2022.

    The full list of Nurses of Note honorees is as follows:

    Mary M. Andersen (Allina Health — Minneapolis, MN);

    Jessica Andrina (Pediatric Surgeons of West Michigan — Grand Rapids, MI);

    Eileen Dauz (Sentara Virginia Beach General Hospital — Virginia Beach, VA);

    Beverly Belanger (Concord Neurology Associates — Concord, NH);

    Amy Bencic (Desert Senita Community Health Center — Ajo, AZ);

    Cynthia Booher (Providence Extended Care — Anchorage, AK);

    Mandee Cormican (Foundation for Positively Kids — Las Vegas, NV);

    Justine Davis (Newton Surgery —  Boston, MA);

    Dina Bressler (Mount Sinai Health System — New York, NY);

    Toby Bressler (Mount Sinai Health System — New York, NY);

    Kathy Dwinnells (Kent State University Department of Nursing — Kent, OH);

    Beverly Felton (Little Axe Health Clinic — Norman, OK);

    Robin Gadd-Lane (Prisma Health — Greenville, SC);

    Brook Gumm (Crossroad Health Center — Cincinnati, OH);

    Jennifer Gillam (Great Mines Health Center — Farmington, MO);

    Omar Hasan Providence Extended Care (Chisholm Trail Pediatrics — Georgetown, TX);

    Kaitlyn Hemmer (Aya Healthcare — San Diego, CA);

    David Irby (NYU Langone Health — New York, NY);

    Lisa James (Prisma Health Richland Hospital — Columbia, SC);

    Tamara Jones (Roseland Community Hospital — Chicago, IL)

    Susan K. Newell (Jewell County Hospital — Mankato, KS);

    Kellie Kainer (Texas Children’s Hospital, Houston, TX);

    Heidi Lacroix (Hometown Health Center — Newport, ME);

    Robert Mangold (Logan County Health Services — Oakley, KS);

    Deana Montella (True Health — Sanford, FL);

    Chris Morgan (Community Health & Emergency Services, Inc. — Cairo, IL);

    Jennifer Martinez (Presbyterian Medical Services — Santa Fe, NM);

    Meghan Murphy (Heartland Health Centers — Chicago, IL);

    Brittany Ottaway (White River Medical Center — Batesville, AR);

    Georgette Pierce (TidalHealth Peninsula Regional — Salisbury, MD);

    Danielle Obinger (Salud Para La Gente — Watsonville, CA);

    Soobhadra Ramdoyal (Golden Links Lodge — Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada);

    Samantha Scego (Cardinal Glennon Children’s Hospital — St. Louis, MO);

    Kerrie Shue (Summa Health System — Akron, OH);

    Marybeth Sprague (Dunmore Comprehensive Treatment Center — Dunmore, PA);

    Amelia Tenberg (Johns Hopkins Hospital — Baltimore, MD);

    Meghan Walter (Northern Westchester Hospital  — Mount Kisco, NY);

    Michelle Watterson (Summa Corporate Health — Medina County, OH);

    Lynn G. Wellman (Prisma Health Richland — Columbia, SC);

    Kimberly Bannat (Hackensack University Medical Center — Hackensack, NJ);

    Daisy M. Abrigo (Palisades Medical Center — North Bergen, NJ);

    Laryn M. Helton (St. Elizabeth Healthcare — Cincinnati, OH);

    Ashley Auer (Providence Alaska Medical Center — Anchorage, AK);

    Mary Blackburn (Hugh Chatham Memorial Hospital — Elkin, NC);

    Danilo Cuenca (Palisades Medical Center — North Bergen, NJ);

    Renee Dittmar (Ascension St. Mary’s Hospital — Saginaw, MI);

    Mona Foots (Gulf Coast Health Center, Inc. — Port Arthur, TX);

    Maggi Hollis (Summa Health — Akron, OH);

    Hallie Anderson (Cleveland Clinic — Cleveland, OH);

    Darunee “Da” Armenta (Devon Gables Rehabilitation Center — Tucson, AZ);

    Taylor Babcock (Atrium Health Wake Forest Baptist — Winston-Salem, NC);

    Audrey Barco (Memorial Hospital of Texas County Authority — Guymon, OK);

    Krystal Bills (Oklahoma Proton Center — Oklahoma City, OK);

    Emma E. Blair (Wellstar Kennestone Hospital — Marietta, GA);

    Victoria Boeger (Pulmonary Associates of Richmond — Richmond, VA);

    Michelle Boiani (Beaumont Health — Southfield, MI);

    Michele Bonner (Pediatric and Adolescent Center of Grand Prairie and Arlington — Grand Prairie, TX);

    Cathy Brostek (Family Health Care Center at New York Institute of Technology — Old Westbury, NY);

    Kacey Buchta (Wichita Surgical Specialists — Wichita, KS);

    Tiffany Cabibbo (Mount Nittany Health Surgical Center — State College, PA);

    Stacy Capps (Putnam County Memorial Hospital — Unionville, MO);

    Sara Clark (Ascension NE Wisconsin – St. Elizabeth Campus — Appleton, WI);

    Natalie C. Miller (Adagio Health — Pittsburgh, PA);

    Ginger Cruz (Lackey Memorial Hospital — Forest, MS);

    Malia Currie (St. Elizabeth Dearborn Hospital — Lawrenceburg, IN);

    Julie Cyr (St. Joseph’s Health — Syracuse, NY);

    Polly Dickmann (The Plastic Surgery Group — Cincinnati, OH);

    Laura Dotlich (Olympic Medical Center — Port Angeles, WA);

    Tabetha Edwards (Mitchell County Hospital District — Colorado City, TX);

    Lisa D. Fitzwilliams (Casper VA Clinic — Casper, WY);

    Olivia Ford (Olympic Medical Orthopedics — Port Angeles, WA);

    Patricia E. Freeman (Mitchell County Hospital District — Colorado City, TX)

    Nicole Galvin (Begin Anew Medical Spa — Jupiter, FL);

    Karen Gillispie (Bath County Community Hospital — Hot Springs, VA);

    Jenifer Harper (Wellstar Kennestone Hospital — Marietta, GA);

    Amanda Harvan (Summa Health — Akron, OH);

    Theresa Hasset (Ascension St. John Hospital — Southfield, MI);

    Caridad Hernandez (Memorial Regional Hospital South — Hollywood, FL);

    Ruth Hughes (CommonSpirit Health — Prescott, AZ);

    Uchechi Ibeh (Queensland Health — Brisbane, Queensland, Australia);

    Cindy Jackson (DaVita Wheeling Dialysis — Wheeling, WV);

    Madison Jacobs (St. Rita’s Medical Center at Mercy Health — Lima, OH);

    Tamara Jones (Roseland Community Hospital — Chicago, IL);

    Juliane Kemp (Optum Medical Group — Tampa Bay, FL);

    Nicola Kierce (Florida Medical Center — Lauderdale Lakes, FL);

    Stacia R. Kiesser (Olympic Medical Physicians — Port Angeles, WA);

    Jon Killingsworth (Craig Hospital — Englewood, CO);

    Erica N. Kirkley (Prattville Baptist Hospital —Prattville, AL);

    Candice Krakuszeski (Novant Health New Hanover Regional Medical Center — Wilmington, NC);

    Angela Lackey (Gillette Children’s Specialty Healthcare — St. Paul, MN);

    Claire Lawson (St. Elizabeth Healthcare — Cincinnati, OH);

    Andrea Lovett (Prisma Health Richland — Columbia, SC);

    Marilyn Lucas (Optimus Healthcare — Bridgeport, CT);

    Hollee McInnis (Ascension NE Wisconsin – St. Elizabeth Campus — Appleton, WI);

    Angela Millwood (Accela Rehab & Care Center at Springfield — Glenside, PA);

    Linitra Montgomery (Wellstar Douglas Hospital — Douglasville, GA);

    Julie Moreton (Prisma Health Richland — Columbia, SC);

    Katy Osborne (Central Valley Medical Center — Nephi, UT);

    Minal Patel (Clovis Pediatric Group — Clovis, CA);

    Jessica Pomeroy (Mercy Health – Lorain Hospital — Lorain, OH);

    Diane Potash (Tapestry Health Inc. — Stratford, CT);

    Jennifer Pullmann (Mid-Atlantic Nephrology Associates — Glen Burnie, MD);

    Elizabeth Rata (Peace Care St. Ann’s — Jersey City, NJ);

    Jeanine Reese (Mercer County Surgery Center — Lawrenceville, NJ);

    Alissa Rich (Prattville Baptist Hospital — Prattville, AL);

    Chrissy Richard (BrightView Health — Elsmere, KY);

    Darla Ritscher (Penn Highlands Mon Valley — Monongahela, PA);

    Candice Roberts (Mid Atlantic Spine — Newark, DE);

    Kim Robinson (Ellenville Regional Hospital — Ellenville, NY);

    Tiffany Robinson (Ascension St. Vincent’s Blount — Oneonta, AL);

    Richard Rogalewicz (Regional Hospital of Scranton — Scranton, PA);

    Jane Rohrmiller (Jefferson Einstein Montgomery — East Norriton, PA);

    Sarah Rollins (Prisma Health Pediatrics – Easley — Easley, SC);

    Beverly Saffels (Summa Health Medical Group – NEOCS ACH — Akron, OH);

    Jasmeen Sandhu (Olympic Medical Physicians — Port Angeles, WA);

    Leslie Schlang (Memorial Regional Hospital South — Hollywood, FL);

    Tracy Sheefel (Great Lakes Pediatric Surgeons, Inc — Fort Wayne, IN);

    Gladys Sillero (Palisades Medical Center — North Bergen, NJ);

    Melissa Silva (Wellstar West Georgia Medical Center — LaGrange, GA);

    Kim Sleigh (James E. Van Zandt VA Medical Center — Blair County, PA);

    Rebecca Southworth (Ascension Standish Hospital — Standish, MI);

    Chintada Speller (DaVita — Denver, CO);

    Nicole Stewart (Community First Medical Center — Chicago, IL);

    Hollie Summers (Pinewood Medical Center — Grafton, WV);

    Diana Tai (Providence Mission Hospital — Mission Viejo, CA);

    Carree Taylor (Prisma Health — Greenville, SC);

    Dana Thielk (Novant Health — Charlotte, NC);

    Lisa Trail (Mid-State Gastroenterology — Murfreesboro, TN);

    Ana Tyrkala (Nicklaus Children’s Hospital — Miami, FL);

    Makyla Wendroth (Nura Precision Pain Management — Edina, MN);

    Kerri Williams (Prisma Health — Greenville, SC);

    Mimi Williams (Northridge Facial Plastic Surgery — Northridge, CA);

    Kelsey Wilson (Logan County Health Services — Oakley, KS);

    Yvette Woody (Mitchell County Hospital District — Colorado City, TX);

    Heather Wynn (Wellstar Douglas Hospital — Douglasville, GA);

    …and the Nurse Informatics Team at Mecklenburg County Public Health (Charlotte, NC), including Leigh Barnhill, Taleba Morrison, and Tracy Zeigler.

     

  • Hicuity Health Announces Virtual Nursing Services

    Hicuity Health Announces Virtual Nursing Services

     

    Dedicated Nursing Services Aim to Address Shortages, Support Bedside Care Teams

    Hicuity Health, a leading provider of high-acuity telemedicine services, announced the expansion of its virtual nursing telemedicine services. The expanded range of care services builds on the company’s 16 years of virtual nursing experience in the delivery of telemedicine care.

    Hicuity’s announcement of the virtual nursing services addresses key healthcare industry staffing trends and responds to interest voiced by a range of facilities, including current Hicuity partners.  The services assign to virtual nurses various nursing tasks which do not require hands-on interaction with patients and are typically time-consuming. This enables the bedside staff to fully focus on patient care and deliver improved clinical outcomes.  The nursing tasks that can be done by a virtual nurse are numerous; examples include admission and discharge documentation, patient and family education, medication reconciliation, patient monitoring, assisting bedside nursing preceptors, additional documentation, and other responsibilities. The Hicuity service is not a one-size-fits-all offering but, rather, offers task and workflow flexibility at the unit, hospital, or system level.

    “Hicuity Health Virtual Nursing services enable a hospital to add nursing capacity quickly and flexibly. This can provide much needed support for the bedside nursing team which, in turn, can reduce the recruitment burden for the hospital and potentially the need to relocate nurses,” said Marcia Murphy, Vice President of Clinical Operations and Nursing for Hicuity Health. “The impact of engaging virtual nursing care is multi-dimensional. Most importantly, it allows the bedside nursing team to focus on delivering high quality, hands-on patient care. Virtual nursing provides real-time support for the bedside team, which can help reduce nursing errors, stress and burnout. In doing so, it can materially improve the hospital’s clinical care, increase staffing flexibility, and reduce hospital costs by improving both the nurse and the patient experience.”  

    According to the 2021 NSI National Health Care Retention & RN Staffing Report more than 1/3 of hospitals surveyed in early 2021 reported an RN vacancy rate above 10%. The issue intensified with the clinical challenges and staffing trends of the second half of 2021, exacerbating nursing shortages and increasing clinical costs. The use of virtual nursing ensures that the clinical work that needs to be done gets done, while bedside nurses maintain a priority focus on those nursing elements that can only be performed in person.  The objective is not simply to relocate the workload but, by doing so, improve patient care, staff support, and clinical outcomes.

    “Throughout the history of Hicuity Health, nursing has been core to the care we provide, whether a client relies on us for tele-ICU, telemetry, or remote monitoring,” highlighted Lou Silverman, CEO of Hicuity Health. “Defining a specific virtual nursing service allows us to leverage our deep telemedicine delivery expertise and extend our talented nursing staff to support hospitals and other health facilities that are increasingly challenged to adequately staff their nursing functions. Our goal is to collaborate with the hospital care team to improve patient care and better support their nursing team.”

    Hicuity Health is currently contracted to serve more than 115 hospitals in 30 states. Hicuity Health’s team of U.S. board-certified providers and other clinicians conducts 1.2 million patient interactions annually while caring for 120,000 patients.

  • Nurse Burnout, Inventory Mismanagement and Supply Safaris:Can Hospitals Ease Nurse Burnout with HealthIT Solutions?

    Nurse Burnout, Inventory Mismanagement and Supply Safaris:


    Can Hospitals Ease Nurse Burnout with HealthIT Solutions?


     

    In pre-pandemic 2018, the National Taskforce for Humanity in Healthcare estimated that nurse burnout was already costing the United States $14 billion annually, mostly in employee turnover. The pandemic has exacerbated the stress experienced by nurses.

    “For healthcare workers, the pandemic amplified nurse burnout with the extreme workplace pressures, concerns about safety, time away from loved ones, and the myriad of other Covid-19-related concerns,” said Ryan Siemers, Managing Director, Ernst & Young LLP.

    While the pandemic has been tough on healthcare workers, one often overlooked sore spot — supply chain issues and inventory mismanagement — further aggravate nurses, a recent survey by Syft, a provider of healthcare inventory control and end-to-end supply chain cost management software and services and Sage Growth Partners confirms. The results show that:

    • Eighty-five percent of nurses encounter challenges documenting supplies
    • Eighty-six percent of nurses leave procedures to hunt for supplies at least occasionally
    • Seventy-six percent of nurses said supply shortages are common

    A review of the raw data from the Syft and Sage Growth Partners survey shows that out-of-date procedure cards and unstocked case carts are the primary reason for supply safaris and all the supply mismanagement stress.

    “Many times nurses will be working with the physician and patient when they suddenly need to excuse themselves to go on a supply “treasure” hunt,” said Marie Peppers, an LPN who has spent 30 years caring for patients in various medical settings . “Stockouts are a major stressor! So many times nurses do not have what we need to offer quality care. Honestly, I bet it happens 60% of the time!”

    One thing is clear, nurse burnout is not a personal psychological failure. Nurse burnout is a symptom of a system in distress. How can hospitals help to solve this issue, increase retention and ultimately improve patient outcomes?

    The pandemic has brought Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) platforms into the spotlight and the largest healthcare improvement companies are weighing in on the subject, offering solutions.

    “Next-generation Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) platforms are vital technology solutions for providers to drive operational cohesion and efficiency. These cloud-based, EHR-agnostic systems collect data from across departments ─ including supply chain, finance and human resources ─ that can be leveraged broadly to drive meaningful, enterprise-wide performance improvement,” says Bill Marquardt, Vice President of Product Strategy and Planning, Premier Inc. “They allow staff to spot inventory and new items, trigger order options, forecast volume and streamline the entire purchasing process ─ all in real time. The value to organizations includes improved compliance, appropriate utilization, contract optimization and much more.”

    These HealthIT solutions must specifically address nurses’ supply chain challenges at the point of use.

    “Hospitals are taking steps to improve their supply chains after seeing vulnerabilities exposed by COVID-19, but the survey findings show that they won’t be successful until they start factoring in the nurse experience,” says Todd Plesko, CEO of Syft. “Nurses are experiencing pervasive and troubling challenges related to efficiency, patient safety, waste, and mental health due to supply chains not recognizing their needs. Creating a more nurse-centric supply chain is critical to every hospital’s success.”

  • MEDITECH’s 2020 Nurse Forum Goes Virtual

    MEDITECH’s 2020 Nurse Forum Goes Virtual

    Due to concerns over COVID-19, MEDITECH will be hosting its 2020 Nurse Forum online

    As nurses continue to work tirelessly to provide care throughout the current pandemic, MEDITECH is offering support to the community virtually. Due to COVID-19, the company is announcing it will host its 2020 Nurse Forum: Lighting the Way Through Innovation for the nursing community online for the first time. The virtual event will take place on June 17-19th, from 11:30 a.m. – 3:00 p.m. EST.

    Join as MEDITECH highlights the company’s Expanse solutions and customer strategies supporting the delivery of exceptional patient care, and hear from keynote speakers Rich Bluni, RN, along with Kelly Fredrickson, President of MullenLowe US, and nationally acclaimed author Kelly Corrigan, as they deliver messages of resilience and gratitude to individuals dealing with the COVID-19 crisis.

    “We’re excited to bring together our hardworking nursing community for the continued tradition of learning and connecting,” said Cathy Turner, BSN, MBA, RN-BC, Associate Vice President, MEDITECH. “Nurses are lighting the way with intelligence, compassion, and resourcefulness, and our Forum sessions are geared to help them on their journey — and they’ll experience it all with the convenience of doing it from wherever they are, on whatever device they choose.”

    Customers will have the opportunity to virtually attend three days of product demonstrations and education sessions on optimizing their MEDITECH EHR, enhancing mobility with Expanse Patient Care, telehealth, and more. Some of the education sessions include:

    • A Nursing Narrative: Leveraging Technology in Times of Crisis
    • Ignited by the Pandemic: Telehealth and Virtual Visits
    • Expanse Point of Care Implementation Strategies
    • MEDITECH: The Green Light of Healthcare Innovation

    Click here to register for MEDITECH’s Virtual 2020 Nurse Forum and automatically be entered for a chance to win a giveaway prize.

  • MEDITECH Takes Expanse to the Next Level for Nurses and Therapists, Announces Expanse Patient Care

    The company is the first EHR vendor to have a fully web-based nursing solution

    MEDITECH has disrupted the EHR market with its revolutionary physician mobility tools, and now the company is doing it again for nurses and therapists with Expanse Patient Care. The intuitive, web-based software empowers nurses and therapists to mobilize care delivery using the device best suited for the task at hand, while keeping their focus on what matters most — their patients.

    Designed using MEDITECH’s strong framework and understanding of how nurses and therapists really practice, Expanse Patient Care enhances mobility and streamlines nursing and therapy workflows. Use of familiar, mobile devices allows nurses and therapists to “stay on the go” and maintain face-to-face time with their patients. With a smartphone, caregivers can untether from WOWs and conveniently perform bedside verification, review clinical decision support tools, conduct patient assessments, and review the patient record in the palm of their hands.

    Additionally, the solution allows for personalized navigation so users can review patient records in a way that works best for them, with customizable features and a user interface similar to their everyday mobile devices. Users can also conveniently review the full patient journey through a single EHR available on a single mobile device, allowing them to collaborate with physicians using a consistent toolset and efficiently navigate care transitions.

    “Nurses and therapists are the largest user group within the MEDITECH community, so it was important for MEDITECH to enhance our EHR in a way that improves their unique and demanding experiences,” said Cathy Turner, BSN, MBA, RN-BC, associate vice president, MEDITECH. “We are excited to provide a modern solution that functions on a mobile device to help transform the way nurses and therapists with busy schedules deliver care.”

    It is well documented that personal and positive interactions between patients and their care teams improve patient satisfaction. By breaking down technology barriers that too often come between nurses and their patients, Expanse Patient Care helps get nurses back to doing what they enjoy most, while also enhancing the patient experience. With Expanse Patient Care, MEDITECH is reducing the learning curve for nurses and therapists and improving their productivity, resulting in higher overall satisfaction for both caregivers and their patients.

    Heading to HIMSS20? Come visit MEDITECH at booth #1428 to hear how Expanse is revolutionizing what an EHR can do.

  • American Academy of Nursing Designates
    Five Nurse Leaders as Living Legends

    Academy Will Present its Highest Honor at Annual Policy Conference in October

    The American Academy of Nursing will officially designate five exceptional leaders as Living Legends at the Academy’sTransforming Health, Driving Policy conference in Washington, DC on October 24, 2019. Change agents and champions, these individuals have demonstrated a lifelong commitment to transforming health care. Using their nursing knowledge, they have spearheaded academic, practice, policy, and social change with extraordinary impact.

    “The leaders selected in this year’s class of Living Legends are highly-acclaimed, long-time Fellows whose accomplishments to health and wellness are profound and sustained,” said Academy President Karen Cox, PhD, RN, FACHE, FAAN. “The Academy is delighted to recognize these incredible nurses as Living Legends. Their legacies will be felt and celebrated at the Academy, as well as, by the public, for many years to come.”

    Countless lives, families, communities, and systems have improved as a direct result of the tenacity, expertise, and passion demonstrated by the following leaders honored as the 2019 Academy Living Legends.

    American Academy of Nursing 2019 Living Legends:

    Geraldine “Polly” Bednash, PhD, RN, FAAN, is a powerful leader recognized nationally and internationally for her work to advance nursing education. Dr. Bednash served as the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) at the American Association of Colleges of Nursing (AACN) from 1989 to 2015. Prior to serving as CEO, Dr. Bednash headed AACN’s legislative and regulatory advocacy efforts as the Director of Government Affairs. She is a visionary advocate known for advancing the education of the nursing workforce, quality and safety in health care, and diversity within the health professions workforce. Currently a Board of Stewardship Trustees Member for the Common Sprit Health, Dr. Bednash also serves as a visiting professor at the Australian Catholic University.

    C. Alicia Georges, EdD, RN, FAAN, is a leader in academic nursing, health policy development, community engagement, organizational development, and healthy aging. For the past 17 years, Dr. Georges has served as the Chairperson of the Department of Nursing at Lehman College of the City University of New York, though she has over forty years of experience as a nurse educator. She currently serves on the AARP Board of Directors as the National Volunteer President. A former president of the National Black Nurses Association and current president of the National Black Nurses Foundation, Dr. Georges has been awarded many times for her continued work to increase minority representation in nursing and for her leadership in advancing health equity.

    Pamela Mitchell, PhD, RN, FAHA, FAAN, is highly regarded for her work as a clinical nurse specialist and nurse scientist in neuroscience and critical care nursing. Dr. Mitchell has been a pioneer in the development of interprofessional education. Notably, she and her students were the first to document that ordinary nursing care activities can affect intracranial pressure in people with acute brain injury. The founding director of the University of Washington’s Center for Interprofessional Education, Research, and Practice, Dr. Mitchell is a distinguished leader in interprofessional education nationally. Currently, she is Professor Emerita at the University of Washington, Associate Editor of the International Nursing Review, and consulting professor at various international nursing schools.

    Linda Schwartz, DrPh, RN, FAAN, a decorated United States Air Force veteran of the Vietnam War, has tirelessly dedicated her life to improving the health of veterans. Dr. Schwartz has testified on behalf of veterans over 35 times before Congress and has served as an expert on readjustment after combat, equality for women, homelessness, and mental health care to five Veterans Affairs (VA) Secretaries. Unanimously confirmed as VA Assistant Secretary for Policy and Planning at the Veteran Health Administration (VHA), Dr. Schwartz oversaw the groundbreaking ruling to allow full scope of practice authority to Advanced Practice Registered Nurses across all VHA facilities. Currently, she serves as a member of the House Veterans Affairs Committee’s Women Veterans Task Force.

    Mary Wakefield, PhD, RN, FAAN, is renowned trailblazer and advocate. Her career has produced tremendous impact on health policy through her role in several high-profile positions within the federal government. During her tenure as Administrator of the Health Resources and Services Administration from 2009-2015 and as Acting Deputy Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services from 2015-2017, Dr. Wakefield led key health policy initiatives with a particular focus on health programs for rural populations. Dr. Wakefield has overseen foundational work to strengthen the healthcare workforce, increase health equity, and provide care services to patients who are geographically isolated, or economically or medically vulnerable. Currently, she serves as a Visiting Distinguished Professor at Georgetown University and the University of Texas at Austin, as well as, serving as Co-Chair of the National Academy of Medicine’s Consensus Study on the Future of Nursing 2020-2030.