Pledge Partner Education

PP - Direct Supply: Exploring Safety Innovations for Senior Care Organizations

Thursday, October 8, 2020

8:00 AM – 8:45 AM

Speaker(s)

Liz Jensen, MSN, RN, RN-BC

Clinical Director
Direct Supply Innovation & Technology Center @ MSOE

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Justin L. Smith

Innovation and Technology Manager
Direct Supply Inc.

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Safety in skilled nursing and assisted living organizations has been a long recognized priority for senior care organizations. Infection control and falls are leading causes of adverse events, hospitalizations, and increased costs incurred with regulatory citations, increased insurance premium, and litigation claims. Barriers to innovation include time for senior care providers to search and vet new technologies, and for technology developers to understand the problems that technology can solve. Problem focused vetting that incorporates clinical, operational, and engineering expertise saves time, resources, and money for providers and developers. Join us to learn more about emerging safety innovations in infection control and fall reduction and the problems they are solving for senior care organizations.

Learning Objectives:

Define the framework used for identifying safety innovations in senior care.
Examine the framework & problem focused vetting process used for evaluating innovations in technology for senior care organizations.
Explore findings to date of a Falls Action Research Project to reduce falls in assisted living including technology demonstrating improvements in resident outcomes and reduced costs associated with emergency room visits and hospitalizations.
Explore emerging innovative technologies impacting infection prevention and control practices for senior care organizations in engineering & administrative hazard controls.