Ann Fahey-Widman, APR
Vice President, Corporate Communications
afahey@medline.com
847-643-3011
John Marks
Director, Communications
jmarks@medline.com
847-643-3309
Medline Industries, Inc. announced today that it has been named one of the "Top Workplaces" in the Chicago area by the Chicago Tribune. The 2012 rankings, published today in a special Chicago Tribune magazine section, recognizes the 100 best places to work in the Chicago area based on employee opinions about company leadership, values, local community support, career development, training and benefits.
Starting today, the public can vote on the dance moves of more than 60,000 health care workers, students, firefighters and policeman from across North America — from Hershey, Pa. and Hollywood, Fla. to Houston, Texas and Honolulu, Hawaii — in Medline Industries, Inc.'s 2nd Annual National Pink Glove Dance Video Competition.
The search is on for the next hospital CEO with “moves like Jagger” and for nurses “to get up, get down, put their hands up to the sound.” Medline Industries, Inc., the creators of the YouTube® sensation Pink Glove Dance and makers of the pink gloves, announced today the kick-off of its second annual national Pink Glove Dance video competition in support of breast cancer awareness and prevention.
Golden Living, a family of companies that specialize in recovery care with 304 facilities, partnered with Medline to implement a resident incontinent program and other quality assurance initiatives to enhance resident care and reduce cost throughout the system.
Bandera Healthcare, 12-facility long-term care group in Arizona, was looking for a quality assurance system that was more resident centered rather than its current program. By using abaqis, Bandera’s facilities not only identify what their residents specifically like and dislike about their care, it also is helping the staff prepare for the new Quality Indicator Survey being rolled out across Arizona and eventually the entire country.
See how an innovatively designed oral care system is helping the staff at St. Vincent Charity Medical Center in Cleveland, Ohio improve compliance and patient care and reduce the chance for ventilator-associated pneumonia.
Floyd Medical Center, a 304-bed non-profit teaching community hospital in Rome, Georgia, reduced CAUTI rates by 83 percent and catheter usage by 23 percent throughout the hospital by employing the ERASE CAUTI catheter management system.
Medline has partnered with Samaritan Healthcare & Hospice for the past five years to provide this southern New Jersey-based home health company quality medical products and staff education.
UHS-Pruitt is using abaqis to help cut deficiencies, but its real benefit is more profound: harnessing performance improvement initiatives that fuel exemplary care.