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Article: St. Joseph's/Candler Health System Expands Premier Healthcare Alliance Affiliation to Include Web-Based Infection Tracking Solution.
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- Biotech Week
- Article date:
- November 11, 2009
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St. Joseph's/Candler Health System (SJ/C) of Savannah, Ga., is expanding its relationship with the Premier healthcare alliance by implementing Premier's SafetySurveillor[R] Web-based infection tracking and antimicrobial utilization solution. The health system will join the more than 270 hospitals that have chosen SafetySurveillor to help prevent healthcare-associated infections (HAIs) and optimize antibiotic use, with a goal of protecting patients more effectively while safely reducing hospital costs (see also Premier Inc.).
"SafetySurveillor is a useful tool for our infection control practitioners," said Sherry Danello, chief nursing officer of SJ/C. "It should ...