Lehigh Valley Hospital improves patient touch time & medication security with Dialock RFID locks.

Summary
Dialock RFID locks at Lehigh Valley Hospital’s Kasych Family Pavilion maximizes patient touch time and medication security.

 

Highlights

• Patient touch time is maximized. Hospital staff can continue interaction without distraction from mechanical keys and locks at the point-of-care.
• Medication safety. Access to patient-specific medication drawers is only through authenticated access. Drawers are locked every time with reminder buzzer.
• Unique staff identification. Enhances security and accountability
• One step security credentialing. All authorization is set-up for new users in the security office. Unnecessary and time consuming trips to upload key information to remote terminals are eliminated.

Lehigh Valley Hospital’s staff in their rush to do many things didn’t always close and lock patient medication drawers. Through discussions with the hospital’s cabinet shop, it was discovered that medication drawers were not locked because of the time it takes to separate a mechanical key, turn and lock/unlock the drawer. In addition, the existing mechanical locks were failing from use.

Hafele suggested Dialock RFID keyless locks with an important customization. Jeff Winters, Hafele Regional Accounts Manager, explains “A unique feature we added for this project was a buzzer to remind nurses to shut the drawers to ensure locking. If the drawers are left open for more than 30 seconds, a buzzer will sound until the drawer is securely shut.”    

Brad Mann, Security Officer, Security Technologies Group for Lehigh Valley Hospitals says, “Dialock is hot”. The Dialock system’s one-step credentialing process for security staff saves time. Key cards are programmed in the security office and immediately ready to use.

Other proximity reader systems installed at the hospital are more cumbersome. At Lehigh Valley Hospital’s campus this means a round trip of up to forty minutes to configure a door lock. With Dialock in place these time consuming trips are eliminated.

Lehigh Valley Hospital (LVH) ranks as one of the nation's top hospitals in six specialty care delivery areas in the 2007 U.S. News & World Report guide to "America’s Best Hospitals."

Featured solution
250 patient rooms outfitted with:
• Dialock RFID Furniture Terminals (DFT)
• Electronic Furniture Locks (EFL6)
• Keycards
• Software, programming and training provided by Hafele personnel.

Related links
TLC Engineers - One of the largest multidiscipline engineering firms in the Southeast. Featured Project http://www.tlc-engineers.com/lehigh.htm

Lehigh Valley Hospitals - One of the nation's top hospitals in six specialty care delivery areas. http://www.lvh.org/

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