The situation
St. Aldric’s four hospitals had grown together by merger and ran three generations of patient monitoring from two manufacturers. Nurses floated between hospitals and had to relearn alarm screens on each, and the oldest monitors could not send vital signs to the system’s records platform.
Replacing everything at once would have cost more than the system’s whole capital budget for the year. Replacing a hospital at a time would have left the mix in place for four more years.
What we did
Wardmore financed a single platform across all four hospitals under Technology Refresh: 318 bedside monitors, six central stations and 74 telemetry transmitters, with the records-system interface and alarm middleware, installed over five weekends.
The agreement runs for 96 months. At month 48 Wardmore will remove the first generation and install the manufacturer’s then-current generation, at no change to the monthly payment. The price of the second generation was agreed with the manufacturer at signing.
The outgoing monitors from three hospitals were taken back and remarketed, and the proceeds credited to the system.
The result
Every monitored bed in the system now runs the same software and sends vital signs to the record. The refresh, due in the autumn of 2029, is already in the system’s capital plan as a zero.
Our nurses work in four hospitals. Now they see one screen.
Published with the hospital’s permission. Figures are the hospital’s or Wardmore’s as stated, and individual results depend on each hospital’s circumstances.