Web site spotlight: Robots accelerate hospital’s med delivery process
Nurse Leader Weekly, November 3, 2008
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Four robots are working overtime at Sinai Hospital in Baltimore, MD, and their hard work is speeding up medication deliveries.
The robots don't complain, get tired, or need a break no matter how many hours they work. The mobile TUG robots—dubbed Rigby, Herbie the love TUG, Jake, and Elwood—coast the facility's hallways 24 hours a day, seven days a week, delivering medications to the nursing stations. Thanks to all their hard work, staff who previously delivered medication have been able to spend more time on patient care and less on pushing carts.
The hospital brought Aethon's TUG system, which was developed to assist hospitals in delivering and tracking supplies, on site in September, and the robots deliver medications to the nursing stations about every 45 minutes.
"[Previously] we were using staff who were doing hourly deliveries," says Lisa Polinsky, pharmacy operations manager at Sinai. "Our goal with the TUGs was 30-minute deliveries. We have not reached it yet, but we are getting closer."
Editor's note: This excerpt was adapted from the article, "Robot rounds quicken hospital's med delivery" featured in The Reading Room on HCPro's new online resource center, www.StrategiesforNurseManagers.com. Get a free trial membership that will give you 30 days to test drive all the exciting features on the Web site.
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