What's Your Bag?

If you are an independent medical facility, you want every advantage possible to grow your business. The right packaging can be another tool in your arsenal to provide a professional image, increase efficiency and assist with patient safety.

Personalization Power

Look the part by adding your logo to your packaging. Personalization builds your image as reputable a business.  Coordinating your business cards, letterhead, staff apparel, and bags provide a consistent marketing message across all items that come in contact with your patient. This builds confidence and trust that you are strong, established business who can meet their needs.

Depending your business you might be moving medical equipment, braces, orthopedics, or other items out the door. Package your retail items in the right bag and personalize it with your logo to create a walking billboard. Your bag travels with your patient continually advertising your business. In fact, many bags are reused by customers for lunch bag or as a tote bag to the grocery store. Your business is going places your marketing collateral never would.

Accreditation Packaging Supplies
Accreditation packaging supplies are created to not only  help you meet certification requirements but improve work flow and patient safety.  Equipment covers and tags to indicate clean, dirty, repairs, or returns. These items help streamline your operations by quickly alerting staff of the equipment needs. The assisting with your staff following accreditation requirements for not only their safety but also your patients.

The Right Bag for the Job
Packaging helps you do your job better. If you are delivery temperature sensitive TPN units or diabetic meds, foil pouches and chill packs allow you to safely supply your patients with their needs. Color coded or printed specimen bags alert staff instantly of specimen needs. Prescription bags allow you to staple important medication information and have the patient get their meds out the door.

Bags can be a forgotten supply item but they are a universal tool to improve your business. How are bags helping your business today?

Take your daily dose of accreditation!

Last year accreditation was top of mind for every home healthcare provider. The rules of the game changed requiring anyone dealing with Medicare reimbursement to become accredited. Even thought the writing was on the wall for while, many HME provides waited until the very end to become accredited. The mad dash was on and the accreditation race begun. Now the dust has settled.

With their status secured, most HME's are comfortably back to business not thinking too much about accreditation. Most await until their next re-survey round before they will get back into accreditation concerns. Why make accreditation a fire drill for you and your team? It leads to more stress and more work that can be completely avoided. Additionally accreditation checks could occur before a re-survey date. Inappropriate billing errors, fraud investigations, or a possible complaint can lead to an accreditation check. Avoid excess stress and make accreditation a daily maintenance activity just like locking up the building and turning off the lights.

A daily dose of accreditation does not need to be overwhelming. Items include having a defined process for daily patient paperwork, keeping accurate data records, and monitoring the data. Look at the cleanliness of your facility for patient and employee safety. Make sure you are covering equipment, tagging, and appropriately marking clean, dirty, and repairable equipment. Keeping accreditation top of mine is more about being educated and paying attention to details.

What is your facility doing to take their daily does of accreditation? Share your thoughts below!