EMMS Hospital Reduces Surgical Scrubs Costs
EMMS Hospital reduces surgical scrubs costs, time loss, and unnecessary aggravation and stress with a Polytex Automatic Workwear Management Solution.
EMMS Hospital reduces surgical scrubs costs, time loss, and unnecessary aggravation and stress with a Polytex Automatic Workwear Management Solution.
The EMMS Nazareth Hospital in Northern Israel was established in 1861. Today, the hospital has over 150 beds and its departments and clinics serve approximately half a million people from the surrounding area, it receives over 300,000 patient visits annually. The surgical departments, staffed by 150 people, includes six operating theaters, and performs more than 5000 surgeries each year.
The Polytex solution gives the operating room staff at EMMS Nazareth Hospital the convenience and peace-of-mind they need, to do their job well.
The hospital’s surgical department needed a better way for nurses and doctors to get clean scrubs at the start of each shift. Since no one can enter an operating theater without scrubs, an easily accessible, reliable supply of scrubs is vital. Scrubs were available for collection from the inventory room, but – inconveniently – only during weekday morning hours. Workers hoarded scrubs or kept them in a shared cupboard. The department’s Chief Nurse was spending two hours each morning sorting out scrub availability issues. Time was wasted, items went missing, and each day started with unnecessary aggravation and stress.
EMMS Nazareth Hospital needed to streamline scrub management in the surgical department, to ensure quick and easy access to hygienic, well-fitting scrubs around the clock.
After the surgical department’s Chief Nurse recommended the Polytex automated workwear management solution, having used it in his prior job at Jerusalem’s Hadassah Hospital, a dispensing unit and return unit were installed in the EMMS Nazareth Hospital surgical department in 2018.
Installing a Polytex workwear management system has given the EMMS Nazareth Hospital Operating rooms department much-needed consistency in scrubs availability and distribution, reducing operating staff members’ stress and workwear management costs.
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