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The new Tift Regional Medical Center expansion will open in the fall of 2021 in Tifton, Georgia. The 263,000-square-foot, four-story tower will include a new emergency center, inpatient units and new ICU. (Credit: Tift Regional Medical Center)
Sepsis is the deadliest and most expensive condition treated in hospital critical care units, with septic shock carrying a 34% mortality rate. Early sepsis detection is critical to saving lives and decreasing the cost of care.
THE PROBLEM
In absolute terms, hospital admissions for sepsis outnumber admissions for stroke, acute myocardial infarction and trauma combined, so creating more integrated sepsis and infection-prevention programs is an ever-present challenge.
Wolters Kluwer Health: Tift Regional Medical Center Accelerates Sepsis Detection with POC Advisor from Wolters Kluwer
six hours earlier than EHR alerts, helping reduce cost of care and improve CMS compliance Wolters Kluwer Health today announced that Tift Regional Medical Center, the flagship hospital of Southwell, a not-for-profit health system in South Central Georgia, has selected POC Advisor for more accurate, earlier detection and treatment of sepsis. POC Advisor s real-time artificial intelligence (AI) analysis of patient data will further empower Tift s sepsis care capabilities for earlier detection and rapid medical intervention at the earliest onset of sepsis. Early recognition of sepsis is critical. Our organization is focused on this goal to improve the care and outcomes of patients with sepsis. To support our attack on sepsis, we sought a solution that not only analyzes EHR data but includes natural language processing (NLP) of clinical notes to help our clinici
With Georgia topping 5,000 current hospitalizations for COVID-19, public health experts are calling for more state restrictions to curb the virus surge.
Yet another ominous factor popped up Tuesday: Georgia Public Health officials reported the state’s first case of the more contagious COVID-19 variant discovered in Britain last month and subsequently detected in several nations and U.S. states.
The variant was discovered during analysis of a specimen sent by a Georgia pharmacy to a commercial lab, state officials said. The Georgia resident is an 18-year-old male with no travel history, and is currently in isolation at home. Public Health said it’s working to identify close contacts of the individual and will monitor them closely and test them for the variant.
Dec 31, 2020
Dec 31, 2020
Alex Le, chief operations officer at Tift Regional Health System, addresses the city council with a slide presentation during the special called meeting Dec. 14. File Photo: Billy Malone | The Tifton Gazette
TIFTON â Tift Regional Medical Center reopened its COVID-19 drive-through testing site at the Tift Regional Community Events Center Wednesday, Dec. 30.
Southwell facilities, including Tift Regional Medical Center in Tifton and Southwell Medical in Adel, reinstated a no-visitor policy, hospital officials said in a statement.Â
âLike most health care systems around the state and country, we are seeing a spike in COVID-19 patients,â said Alex Le, chief operating officer. âDuring the past few months, we averaged about 20 COVID-19 inpatients per day at TRMC. Now, as we are in the heart of the holiday season, we are up to 78 COVID-19 inpatients at TRMC.Â