Tyco Security Products, part of Tyco, the multi-national fire protection and security product company, announced that the Or Yom Nursing Home in Istanbul is now using the Elpas Real Time Location System (RTLS) for the facility’s 130 residents and 20 staff members.
Working with Turkish installer Sigmamed, residents were issued Elpas healthcare positioning tags that serve as an active RFID transmitter. The tags work with readers installed around the two buildings — one existing and one newly constructed building — that encompass the facility, which opened in 2004. Residents’ RFID tags are monitored via computers at three nurses’ stations within the home.
Michael Wasserstein, General Manager, Elpas, Tyco Security Products, said: “With the deployment of the Elpas RTLS wireless nurse call solution, residents and staff alike now have the assurance that distress calls will be handled quickly and efficiently throughout the premises. The flexibility of the system allows it to be easily deployed in new construction and existing facilities that are being expanded or upgraded.”
The product allows nursing staff to monitor distress calls from residents and determine their location via a positioning system; receive calls on mobile phones or via the Eiris Go mobile application if they are away from the nurse’s station; and cancel alarms once a staff member has responded to a resident’s call. The Elpas RTLS also lets staff members send their own distress call or request help through the activation of a Code Blue button on badge.
Data from the system is recorded as well, so the nursing home can measure response times and track which staff member responded to a specific event.
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