Staff Engagement

Long-Term Care

Your front-line people—those who work most closely with residents—are the heartbeat of quality care. Retaining dedicated staff means giving them opportunities to learn, grow and serve in meaningful ways. At Medline, you’ll find innovative programs, resources and partnerships to help you attract, develop and keep great people.

abaqis® Quality Management System

Quality assurance. Survey insurance.

You and your staff provide quality care for your residents because it’s the right thing to do. You focus on survey performance because it’s required. You address federal regulations because it’s the law. The abaqis quality assurance tool drives success in all three.

abaqis helps you monitor and improve your readmission stats, comply with federal and state regulations and enhance patient, family and staff satisfaction to achieve better survey results and a higher quality-of-life for your residents.

Learn more about how abaqis can help at your facility.

Skintegrity™

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:

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

Discover how Skintegrity can lower pressure ulcers at your facility.

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 University®

World class education.

Medline University provides hundreds of free continuing education courses 24/7 on subjects as diverse as wound care, infection control, continence management, quality assurance and more. With Medline University, you can:

Assign courses to your staff and track their progress.
Add your own materials to create custom courses.
Set up a customized home page with your logo.
Suggest specific courses for patients/families about their particular condition.

Explore all of the courses available to you and your staff at MedlineUniversity.com.

Clinical Algorithms

Clinical practice guidelines: Formulas for success.

More than 50 nurses work on staff for Medline helping fellow healthcare colleagues with the clinical applications of Medline products. Using evidence-based clinical practice guidelines, they help find the right product for a specific patient and condition.

Wound care is the richest of our care algorithms, complementing our WOCN hotline. Other areas include urologicals, continence care management, DVT prophylaxis and mobility aids. Medline can also help customize an algorithm based on your own formulary or requirements. To get this level of clinical support, call your Medline rep.

Advanced Wound Care Specialists

Wound expertise you can count on.

As an industry leader in both traditional and advanced wound care, Medline provides:

On-call clinicians—WOCNs and others—for consultation.
An advanced wound guide to help clinicians identify and stage wounds so they can get appropriate treatment.
Specialized advanced wound care sales team, to keep customers up-to-date with the latest products and practices in wound care.

Continence Assessment

One tool. Big benefits.

Managing incontinence can use up to 30-40% of your facility’s overall medical supply cost. Medline is committed to helping you manage your spending on continence care products. Using the right product based on individual need helps reduce costs. Our exclusive assessment tool:

Offers product recommendations based on each resident’s physical and cognitive status.
Provides ordering quantities.
Auto-generates assignment sheets to help your staff deliver resident-specific care.

Clinician Support

Side-by-side support. Count us in.

Reducing costs and improving outcomes require more than using the right products; it means giving staff the knowledge and skills to take full advantage of each product’s capabilities. That’s when you know you’re aligned for success. Medline Clinical Services Team provides:

Product in-services, training and education.
Product use analysis and system implementation.
Clinical evaluations and studies.

Footnote:
1 Source: 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.

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