Collaborative Cost Management: A Roadmap to Continuous Savings Professional Medical is dedicated to helping you strike a balance between delivering great care and managing costs. Our exclusive Collaborative Cost Management (CCM) program is a three-step cycle of evaluation and implementation that will help you realize continuous savings while delivering exceptional care. Step 1: Immediate Impact We'll use our Compliance Price/Product Comparison (CPC) tool to analyze your current equipment and supply spend while offering solutions to help you improve care, save time and reduce costs. To ensure all goals are met, we will provide hands-on implementation that includes on-site education, tracking and analysis. Step 2: Evaluation Using our unique Per Patient Day (PPD) system, we'll assess efficiency and identify opportunities to eliminate waste, shrinkage and mismanagement. The system generates monthly reports, broken down by patient day, to provide baseline data that identifies areas in which you have the greatest opportunities for savings. Step 3: Improvement Strategies We'll work with your organization's leadership to offer solutions and collaborate on the optimal improvement strategy. Our team will also conduct a Smart Choice Business Review (SCBR) to ensure you are continuously taking advantage of everything ProMed has to offer. This cycle is ongoing, sustainable and evolves with your organization's needs, helping you to both realize how far you have come and provide a pathway to where you want to go. To learn more about CCM, contact your ProMed territory manager, give us a call at (800) 648-5190 or visit us online at promedsupply.com.

Fist Bumping Spreads Fewer Germs than Handshakes or High-Fives If you want to spread friendliness but not germs, a new study suggests that fist bumping is the way to go. According to the study, published in the American Journal of Infection Control, fist bumping spreads significantly fewer bacteria than either handshaking or high-fiving. During the study, participants immersed a sterile-gloved hand into a container of germs. Once the glove was dry, they exchanged a handshake, fist bump or high-five with another sterile-gloved participant. The receiving gloves were then immersed in a solution to count the number of bacteria transferred during contact.

The researchers found that handshakes transferred about twice as many bacteria as high-fives, and significantly fewer bacteria were transferred during fist bumps than high-fives. To learn more, click here.

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