Franciscan Missionaries of Our Lady Health System and Masimo Sign Multi-year, System-wide Monitoring Agreement
Leading Louisiana and Mississippi Healthcare Provider Standardizes 10 Hospitals on Masimo SET® and Patient SafetyNet™ to Enhance Patient Safety and Improve Patient Outcomes
Masimo (NASDAQ: MASI) and Franciscan Missionaries of Our Lady Health System (FMOLHS), a 10-hospital system headquartered in Baton Rouge and serving communities throughout Louisiana and Mississippi, have signed a multi-year agreement to implement Masimo monitoring technologies system-wide. FMOLHS hospitals are standardizing on Masimo SET® pulse oximetry, including the use of Radius PPG® tetherless pulse oximetry to ensure uninterrupted continuous patient monitoring even while patients are ambulating.
In addition, FMOLHS is adopting Masimo Patient SafetyNet™, which provides supplemental remote monitoring and alarms at centralized view stations and two-way clinician notifications via Replica®-equipped smartphones, to monitor 500 beds in their medical-surgical, orthopedic, bariatric, and cardiovascular step-down units. Combined, these monitoring advancements are designed to improve patient safety and care workflows by providing continuous, accurate bedside and surveillance monitoring and automating the transfer of patient data across FMOLHS’s continuum of care.
“Implementing Masimo’s Radius PPG tetherless pulse oximetry has been a game-changer for our patients,” said Shantelle Graves, Senior Director of Respiratory Care and EEG at Our Lady of the Lake Regional Medical Center. “Additionally, with the integration of Masimo’s surveillance monitoring and automation technologies, clinicians’ workflows have become more streamlined and efficient. Accessing patient data and monitoring information has never been easier, allowing our nurses to spend more time at the bedside providing direct patient care. Masimo’s solutions are positively impacting our care team’s productivity, resulting in better patient outcomes and enhanced nursing satisfaction.”
Following a thorough evaluation to compare Masimo to their previous monitoring technology, FMOLHS, whose focus on enhancing patient safety was recently recognized by the Healthtrust Performance Group, concluded that Masimo SET® and Patient SafetyNet offered clear advantages. Masimo SET® has been shown in more than 100 studies to outperform other pulse oximetry technologies, significantly reducing false alarms and measuring more accurately and reliably during motion and low perfusion1 – key to FMOLHS’s goal of more reliably monitoring pediatric and neonatal patients. Coupled with Masimo Patient SafetyNet for centralized remote monitoring, SET® has been shown to reduce response team activations and ICU transfers by helping clinicians catch signs of patient deterioration sooner, improving patient safety and nursing workflows2-5 – making the technology a crucial component of FMOLHS’s “virtual nursing” program.
Also important for FMOLHS was the Masimo Hospital Automation™ platform’s ability to automate ADT (admission-discharge-transfer) processes and the transfer of patient monitoring data to hospital electronic medical records (EMRs) for use throughout the healthcare system – improving care workflows and ensuring that doctors and nurses always have the most up-to-date and comprehensive data available to make more informed care decisions.
Joe Kiani, Founder and CEO of Masimo, said, “FMOLHS’ commitment to patient safety and care is exceptional; we are delighted to work with them to help them improve patient care.”
