Congratulations to Austco Excellence Award winners at the International Hospital Federation Awards

At the recent International Hospital Federation Awards, it was great to see our CEO Clayton Astles up on the big screen as part of the Awards Committee. Congratulations to all the winners and honourable mentions for the Austco Excellence Award for Quality and Patient Safety as below:

Gold: Kaiser Permanente Northern California (United States), Automated Early Warning System of Adults at Risk for In-Hospital Clinical Deterioration Advance Alert Monitor (AAM) Program.

Silver: Royal Hospital (Oman), Learning through the cycle of improvement: A comprehensive approach to surgical site infection (SSI) prevention in post cardiac surgery patients.

Bronze: Saudi German Hospital Riyadh (Saudi Arabia), Patient Safety Index (PSI) Program: An Innovative Methodology to Monitor and Evaluate Patient Safety Practices Hospital Universitari Mútua Terrassa (Spain), Autism General Hospital Tertiary Unit (UH-ASD): Serving the underserved, empowering the family and using mechanical contention zero.

Honourable Mentions:

Cho Ray Hospital (Vietnam), Patient Safety Patrol Unit
Centro Hospitalar Universitário do Porto, EPE (Portugal), Home Based Care in Covid Management: Telemonitoring using self-reporting and health professional surveillance
Department of Medical Education of Taipei Veterans General Hospital (Taiwan), Immersive virtual reality materials increase tracheostomy and decrease the inappropriate care skills-related complications by educating healthcare providers-3 years projects
Mediclinic Middle East (United Arab Emirates), Journey to zero preventable harm
Multi-disciplinary Simulation and Skills Centre, Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Hospital Authority (Hong Kong), Pursue Excellence in Quality & Patient Safety – Integrating 3D Printing Technology into Healthcare Service

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About Austco

Austco is a worldwide provider of IP Nurse Call Solutions with over 27 years experience in the healthcare market, across 4500+ sites, in over 60 countries. With products designed to comply with global healthcare standards, the Austco team is fully committed to providing quality products and global support services to all our clients. Our flexibility to integrate into various technologies enables a healthcare facility to continue to drive efficiencies to achieve an overall quality healthcare solution. Austco is a wholly owned subsidiary of Austco Healthcare Ltd (ASX:AHC).

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Early Stages of Nurse Call Installation

All NHS Hospital projects have to start somewhere, and it doesn’t look pretty at the start and certainly nothing like a Healthcare environment. Much work goes on behind the scenes to ensure quality and at the end of the day patient safety is achieved, and this is organised by the Main Contractor working with the NHS teams and Subcontractors like ourselves. It doesn’t look pretty now, but watch this space for images of the end product when the project completes in the New Year.

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Austco Lifecycle Upgrade works in Gibraltar

Great for Austco to be back in Gibraltar to be carrying out Lifecycle Upgrade works and Annual Maintenance. Thanks to the team on site for their support with this work.

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Austco Excellence Award for Quality and Patient Safety

We are delighted to have presented the Austco Excellence Award for Quality and Patient Safety at the IHF Awards ceremony at the World Hospital Congress in Barcelona on Wednesday. It was a great honour for Dave Webb to be representing Austco at the event, and congratulations to all the winners for their tremendous achievements.

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Austco to present award at IHF Barcelona

We are proud to announce that Dave Webb, our GM for UK / Europe will be attending the International Hospital Federation Awards next week to present the Austco Excellence Award for Quality and Patient Safety. The Awards Ceremony takes place at the World Hospital Congress in Barcelona from 8^th to 11^th November 2021.

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Austco Canada completes first Smart Call Point solution installation in Ontario

Austco Canada has completed the first Smart Call Point solution installation at the Mon Sheong Long-Term Care Centre in Ontario, Canada.

The Facility

Mon Sheong Long-Term Care provides around-the-clock nursing care for 457 residents. Located in downtown Toronto, Richmond Hill, and Scarborough, their three facilities provide quality care services for seniors, physically or mentally disabled individuals, and those with dementia.

Communication System

The newly designed call points include two configurable backlit buttons and two independently programmable pendant sockets. The first socket is used for the resident pendant and the second is being utilized to provide an input for 3rd party devices such as a bed pad controller. Advanced features include dual color LED’s to indicate call status, RTLS and RFID (proximity) capability which can be upgraded post installation, multi-press call upgrades (programmable) and call mute mode for cleaning.

Why choose Austco?

Austco next generation Smart Call Points with built-in RTLS and badges provide features that are normally only available through stand-alone RTLS systems. Our locating enabled products provide features such as automatic staff presence, automatic call cancelation, mobile duress, automated workflow, comprehensive reporting and staff, resident/patient visibility.

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Austco News Bulletin – August 2021

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Austco Healthcare wins AUD $3.3M contract to supply state-of-the-art nurse call system and Tacera Pulse software platform

Austco Marketing & Service (Asia) Pte Ltd has won an A$3.3M contract to supply its industry-leading Tacera Nurse Call platform to the 795-bed general and acute care hospital Khoo Teck Puat Hospital (KTPH).

KTPH is part of Yishun Health, a network of medical institutions and health facilities under the National Healthcare Group located in Singapore, which also includes the Admiralty Medical Centre, Yishun Community Hospital, and extensions such as Wellness Kampung.

Yishun Health believes that healthcare should be integrated, holistic and person-centric and has created an ecosystem of care with partnerships within the community. They ensure that patients can stay healthy and become active participants of their own well-being.

The contract between Yishun Health and Austco Healthcare will ensure that KTPH, which serves 550,000 people in northern part of Singapore, provides a high standard of personalised care in a comfortable environment.

This Austco integration will feature the Tacera solution and include the recently released call points with built-in RTLS, Webservices interface and software such as Tacera Pulse Reports & Dashboards.

“We are excited to partner with the Khoo Teck Puat Hospital,” Clayton Astles, CEO of Austco, said. “At Austco, we are constantly looking for ways to enhance our innovative solutions and our recent updates to the exceptional Tacera nurse call system delivers a world-class experience for healthcare facilities and every patient.”

Austco offers one of the most advanced nurse call systems in the world by constantly updating the platform to meet the needs of any healthcare facility.

Deployment will commence in Q1 of FY22 and is contracted to be completed by December 2022.

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Austco News Bulletin – February 2021

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Austco Healthcare wins AUD $1.3m contract to refresh nurse call system for JurongHealth Campus in Singapore

Austco has received a AUD $1.3m contract to update the industry-leading Tacera Nurse Call platform installed at the 700-bed Ng Teng Fong General Hospital (NTFGH) and the 400-bed Jurong Community Hospital (JCH).

The strategic partnership between JurongHealth Campus and Austco will ensure that the state-of-the-art hospital executes on the vision of improving healthcare for the community through better and cost-effective care. Austco was chosen on the basis that Tacera’s software is the only nurse call solution on the market that delivers VoIP Internet Protocol to the patients’ bedside and provides a foundation for future products and services.

NTFGH and JCH were the first hospitals in Singapore to be designed and built together from the ground up as an integrated healthcare development. They deliver patient-centered services in a seamless and integrated manner for better patient care, greater efficiency and convenience.

All beds will feature the Tacera solution and include integrations with JurongHealth’s Code Blue Platform, which will deliver the fastest Code Blue rapid response of any hospital in Singapore.

As a further example of JurongHealth’s innovative approach to Healthcare, NTFGH and JCH also intend to adopt artificial intelligence technology in the future with the Tacera solution, which will be able to use data to diagnose the patient and improve survival rates.

“We are aligned with JurongHealth’s mission of advancing healthcare by synergizing technology,” Clayton Astles, CEO of Austco Healthcare, said. “At Austco, our focus is on providing innovative solutions, like our exceptional Tacera nurse call system, that deliver quality care and optimize the patient experience.”

About Tacera Nurse Call System

Tacera as the world’s first solution of its kind with all the components fully IP-configurable and with their own unique addresses, enabling better system management and supervision. Nurse and patient stations use SIP enabling non-blocking audio connections when integrating wired and wireless connections on site. The solution’s touch screen console and single platform are designed to help medical staff operated in a far more organised fashion. Tacera also offers specialised reporting arming nurses and managers with important workflow and performance data which can be gathered from small targeted cells or across entire facilities.

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