Pervasive Quality

Long-Term Care

Medline partners with some of the brightest minds in healthcare quality management to bring you the tools you need to revolutionize almost everything you do, to benefit everyone you touch.

Skintegrity™ Skin Health Program

Skintegrity is Medline’s ongoing approach to total skin health.

It features products, education, outcomes reporting and program managers that are with you every step of the way. Eliminating pressure ulcers is one of the key quality objectives in long-term care today. Through Skintegrity, Medline stands ready to help your facility:

Make product choices with evidence-based clinical outcomes.
Educate your staff and drive their clinical practice to deliver results.
Stay informed of your performance by using your own data to uncover potential risks.

Learn more about Skintegrity.

abaqis® Quality Management System

Gain a competitive edge with abaqis.

The abaqis quality management system is the only tool that exactly replicates the methods and procedures of the Quality Indicator Survey (QIS)—the same calculations, thresholds and analysis. abaqis helps you:

Monitor and improve your readmission stats.
Comply with federal and state regulations.
Enhance patient and family satisfaction.
Manage QAPI processes.

abaqis helps you see a clear path to better survey results, better compliance and a better quality-of-life for your residents.

Learn more about abaqis.

abaqis Resident and Family Satisfaction

Turn resident experience into market success.

Satisfaction stats are key to marketing your facility. abaqis captures all of the satisfaction domains—quality of life, care and service, plus overall satisfaction. Only abaqis:

Makes customer satisfaction data cost-effective at no additional cost.
Provides real-time benchmarking against national data, pinpointing where you excel and where improvement is needed.
Drills down from overall facility satisfaction to individual resident specifics.

Learn how abaqis can help with satisfaction scores.

INTERACT® eCurriculum

Attack readmissions with INTERACT.

INTERACT is shown to reduce hospital readmissions by up to 24% in long-term care.¹ Medline has the exclusive online training for the INTERACT (Interventions to Reduce Acute Care Transfers) quality improvement program, which gives your staff the strategies and tools to help reduce unnecessary hospital transfers, admissions and readmissions.

The curriculum features training on evidence-based and expert-recommended tools to help you reduce hospital readmissions, CEUs and a dedicated program manager to guide training and use.

Get the details on how INTERACT can reduce hospital readmissions and help further educate staff.

Medline Clinical Programs and Expertise

No single “magic” product is going to return the outcomes that you need.

It will require products, practice, knowledge and ongoing management. That combination is just what Medline clinical programs deliver, carefully selected and developed by clinical experts and made simple to implement and maintain by our program support staff. Ask about programs for continence care, falls management, pressure ulcer prevention and quality assurance.

Medline also has programs that cover readmissions, resident and family satisfaction, safe patient handling and skin health.

Tell us what clinical programs you’re interested in.

Best-In-Class Products

350,000 products – and so much more.

A well-earned reputation for quality and value makes Medline a leading manufacturer and distributor of healthcare products around the world.

Our history in medical supplies began in 1910, when one of our founding fathers began making surgeon gowns in Chicago. Today we supply all facets of healthcare with more than 350,000 products—at a significant cost savings because we are both a manufacturer and a distributor.

Explore Medline’s products.

Footnote:
¹ Ouslander J. G., Lamb G., Tappen R., Herndon L., Diaz S., Roos B. A., et al. (2011). Interventions to Reduce Hospitalizations from Nursing Homes: Evaluation of the INTERACT II Collaborative Quality Improvement Project. Journal of the American Geriatrics Society, 59 (4), 745-753.

© 2015 Medline Industries, Inc. All rights reserved. Skintegrity is a trademark and Medline is a registered trademark of Medline Industries, Inc. abaqis is a registered trademark of Providigm, LLC. INTERACT is a registered trademark of Florida Atlantic University.