Columbus Regional also helped housekeepers and other staff members feel safer in their behavioral health units by giving them Versus badges, with the ability to call for assistance at any time. Staff receiving the alert knew who needed help and where that person was. Versus eliminates the realm of uncertainty, so there's no void in terms of location—no questioning. About Columbus Regional Hospital Columbus Regional Hospital is a not-for-profit, regional hospital that serves a county region in southeastern Indiana with 1, employees, physicians on medical staff, and volunteers.
Columbus Regional is nationally recognized for its high quality care as noted as the winner of the American Hospital Association's Quest for Quality Prize in , the highest quality honor awarded by the hospital industry; and is a Thomson Reuters Top Hospitals, Modern Healthcare's Best Places to Work in Healthcare, and is Indiana's first Magnet designated hospital for outstanding nursing care.
For more information, visit www. About Versus Technology, Inc. Established in , Versus Technology, Inc. Exclusively endorsed by the American Hospital Association, the Versus Advantages infrared IR and Active RFID solution is responsible for clinical-grade location and automation at a number of hospitals, clinics and long-term care facilities worldwide. Our WellConnect location opened in downtown Columbus in December WellConnect was born from our focus on innovation and our vision to be your health and wellness partner for life.
The modern, comfortable environment is unlike a traditional health experience. We are open to the public to offer an opportunity to connect with wellness experts, healthcare professionals and others to offer a different and better health and wellness experience. Reams intended for their gift to encourage innovations that enable CRH to rapidly adopt the latest and best clinical practices and to support CRH innovations to eliminate unnecessary costs in healthcare delivery.
The Berman Fund was a catalyst to the development of the Innovation Center and each year underwrites a critical innovation project at CRH. As part of our intentional innovation framework, we take a systematic approach to identify best practice in organizations around the country that are doing related work and can inform us on our own innovation projects.
These are the organizations that CRH leaders visited and learned from:. Their innovation strategies for improving the patient customer experience align closely with our own strategic innovation goals. These benchmarking trips will help guide us in our own innovation journey as we apply the ideas and contacts we gleaned from the visits to advance the work of the Connection Strategy Project Team and the continued development of our Innovation Center. The Leonard Fellowship was created to honor Doug's passion for innovation in the care of patients, to recognize his legacy as the inspiration for the Innovation Center, and to encourage and recognize accomplished innovators at Columbus Regional Health.
How It Works: The Leonard Fellowship is awarded every two years to an accomplished innovator at CRH whose work has demonstrated major impact on CRH patient care, has the potential for continued impact during the fellowship period, and has the potential to be recognized nationally.
Fellows can be nominated by any CRH employee or medical staff member. To win the Innovation Fellowship, recipients must be held in high regard across the hospital, must be nationally recognized for innovation work, and have demonstrated major impact on CRH patient care.
Among his many accomplishments, Dave has participated in numerous cutting-edge vendor participation efforts including Nurse Call System, Building Automation System and most recently the Power Partner Award from Duke Energy. Dave presents regularly at local, state, and national conferences and professional venues on patient satisfaction, employee engagement, improving patient and staff workflows, benchmarking supply costs, facilities excellence, and disaster response and recovery.
Dave led the physical recovery of Columbus Regional Hospital in from a historical flood that shuttered CRH, restoring all hospital services, infrastructure, and operations to functionality within five months. Results: Part of his work during the rebuilding process was to look at ways the hospital could innovate to become a leader in sustainability and energy efficiency. The energy savings in turn would be used to improve patient care. About Us.
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Pediatric Services. Rehabilitation Services. The two have teamed up to improve acute myocardial infarction AMI care by engineering a process to repair broken EKG leads quickly; hand hygiene by setting and meeting new goals for sink repair turnaround; and central line safety by creating central line kits containing gloves, hats, masks, gowns, and hand gel, to encourage clinicians to take all proper precautions to reduce the risk of infections.
Dave heard that message and took it to his staff in ways they could really act on. With only four cases of ventilator-associated pneumonia and two central line infections in nearly five years, the teamwork has really paid off. So we make fixing that sink a top priority. Average Content Rating. Please enter a comment.
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