Health screening practices are an essential part of infection control measures at hospital and healthcare facilities. The key is to introduce practices that are effective, automated, and flexible.
WelloStationX is an automated and FDA-cleared touchless temperature station – proven accurate by clinical trials – that helps hospitals and other healthcare facilities prevent the spread of contagious illness. This combined with instant temperature logging in the Wello portal makes audits a breeze.
When patients and visitors are at your facility, they expect to be safe and not catch an infection they didn’t have prior. The drastic spread of Covid-19, however, brought visitations to a screeching halt. As vaccines rollout and case numbers drop, patients are now expecting a more normal experience that includes the ability to see loved ones while in your care. With fever being the best leading indicator of infection, hospital-acquired infections can be greatly reduced by the temperature and health screening of all patients, guests, and employees.
State and local governments put stringent guidelines in place to prevent infection spread, with many requiring temperature screenings of healthcare employees. Together, welloStationX and Wello portal create automated temperature logs that allow you to instantly show which employees scanned, when they scanned, and what their temperature reading was.
The Covid-19 pandemic made temperature screenings commonplace, but many healthcare facilities do so by staffing an employee at all entrances to take the temperatures with handheld devices. Not only is this increased exposure to potential infection, it’s expensive and inefficient. Automation protects staff and allows them to focus on patient care, while saving the facility labor costs.
The vaccine rollout has produced positive results with dropping Covid-19 cases and hospitalization rates, but experts say herd immunity is unlikely and we should expect Covid to become seasonal. Whether or not this proves true, the general populace is more aware than ever of dangerous contagious illness. Continuing temperature screenings not only keeps people safe, it shows patients you are taking every precaution possible to keep them safe.