»Kronos introduces employee contact-tracing capability
Kronos in late April introduced an automated reporting capability for employee contact tracing that will be available to Workforce Dimensions, Kronos Workforce Central, Kronos Workforce Ready and Kronos iSeries Central customers globally at no additional charge.
Kronos said it took the action to help organizations and their essential employees during the COVID-19 pandemic while providing new functionality for businesses to consider when creating plans and implementing protective measures for reopening in the future.
»PointClickCare adds infection prevention and control tool
PointClickCare in late April announced a new infection prevention and control solution designed to provide ongoing, centralized resident surveillance at the facility and enterprise level.
Clinical teams, particularly those on the front lines combating the evolving COVID-19 pandemic, will have access to actionable insights, enabling them to better monitor for outbreaks and analyze infection data.
“COVID-19 has placed a heavy burden on our customers’ shoulders,” said Bill McQuaide, chief product officer for PointClickCare. “This release of Infection Prevention and Control reinforces our philosophy that we are not just a vendor to our customers, but a trusted partner who is joining them in the fight against this pandemic.”
»IC provider and LTC chain partner on COVID-19 testing
AMS Onsite, an infection prevention provider catering to long-term care facilities, and its CoastalDx lab are working with PruittHealth to expand COVID-19 testing capabilities at multiple locations.
AMS’s Onsite team is providing certified infection preventionists. Their work is designed to meet more stringent infection control measures that the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services adopted in March.
Onsite infection control procedures include testing for 37 distinct pathogens, including COVID-19. Test results are returned within 24 hours.
»Group raises concerns over nonhealing wounds
COVID-19 has affected services for patients with nonhealing wounds, noted the American College of Wound Healing and Tissue Repair.
“Hospitals overwhelmed with both COVID and ruled-out COVID cases had to make broad policies that either closed or greatly reduced outpatient services,” the group noted in a mid-April news release. “Service lines were either deemed ‘essential’ or ‘non-essential.’”
Because most providers have little to no exposure to wound clinics and limited education on wound care during their training, they have insufficient understanding of the importance of wound care, it added.
The field also has not achieved specialty status by the governing bodies of medical education and certifying bodies. This has further limited most hospital administrations from understanding the potential complications that could arise without consistent, ongoing medical management of these patients, the organization stated in its recent position paper. For example, patients with nonhealing wounds are 20 times more likely to need inpatient care or to visit the emergency room. Neither of those sites of care can be considered safe for these compromised patients during this pandemic. There are an estimated 6.7 million patients that suffer with non-healing wounds and they are at risk for cellulitis, limb loss, sepsis and deterioration of their wounds.
»Mattress offers conventional foam on one side, memory foam on the opposite
Direct Supply’s new Panacea Memory Foam Flip mattress comes at a time when the pandemic has heightened awareness regarding all infections in skilled nursing facilities, the company stated during the product launch.
While putting memory foam mattresses throughout a building may seem like a good idea from a pressure management perspective, some prefer other kinds. The Panacea Memory Foam Flip solves both of these issues by offering a medium firmness traditional polyurethane foam on the other side.
