How Yale New Haven Hospital Reduced Alarm Rates by 60%
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Alarm fatigue is a growing concern in healthcare, as the constant barrage of non-actionable alerts can overwhelm clinicians and impact patient safety. Yale New Haven Hospital, facing this challenge, turned to the TigerConnect Alarm Management & Event Notification solution to streamline communication and reduce alarm fatigue. See how by integrating TigerConnect within their existing clinical systems, the hospital significantly improved alarm response times and patient care.?
Yale New Haven Hospital Enhances Patient Safety with Advanced Alarm Management?
Yale New Haven Hospital, part of the Yale New Haven Health System, is an 850-bed facility committed to providing exceptional care across its numerous adult and telemetry units. In its pursuit of patient safety and operational excellence, the hospital identified alarm fatigue as a critical challenge, which posed risks to patient outcomes due to delayed or missed responses to critical alarms.??
To address this, Yale New Haven Hospital implemented TigerConnect Alarm Management & Event Notification. This solution integrated existing clinical systems—such as bedside monitors and nurse call solutions—into a unified workflow, enabling more efficient and reliable alarm management. The solution streamlined communication, allowing alarms to be routed to the appropriate nurse based on Epic assignments, and reduced the volume of non-actionable alarms.??
By adopting TigerConnect, Yale New Haven Hospital achieved a remarkable 60% reduction in bedside alarm rates and an 8% decrease in alarms per bed, significantly improving the hospital’s workflow and patient care.?
Beyond the Beeps: How Yale New Haven Hospital Mastered Alarm Management?
In a hospital environment, physicians and nurses must coordinate and deliver care during high-stress situations. When the equipment generates too many false alarms this adds stressors – creating unnecessary clinical interruptions which in turn leads to missed alarms and delayed response time.?
In this webinar, Laurie Devin, Medicine Coordinator at Yale New Haven Hospital, discusses how proper education on alarm parameters and a customizable alarm management platform led to significant patient monitoring improvements, reduced alarm fatigue, and better patient care.?
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How Personalized Alarm Management Improves Patient Care and Reduces Alarm Overload?
While alarms play an important role in notifying healthcare professionals of critical patient needs, having too many notifications can cause alarm fatigue for already overworked nurses and may put some patients at risk. Being able to differentiate between emergency situations and simple notifications while also being able to route alarms to appropriate staff can help hospitals optimize their alarm management systems.?
During a Becker’s Hospital Review webinar sponsored by TigerConnect, Laurie Devin, RN, medicine coordinator at Yale New Haven Hospital (Conn.) (part of Yale New Haven Health), and Ryan Bush, RN, director of clinical consulting at TigerConnect, described the alarm management challenges that Yale New Haven Health faced, how TigerConnect helped Yale New Haven Health meet those challenges and the results that were achieved.?
With a 60% reduction in bedside alarm rates and notable improvements in patient outcomes, Yale New Haven Hospital demonstrates the powerful impact of personalized alarm management. Schedule a demo to explore how TigerConnect can help your organization enhance patient safety and operational efficiency.?