Case Study: Hendrick Medical Center elevates antimicrobial stewardship with Wolters Kluwer ELM Solutions Sentri7

Sentri7 helps Hendrick Medical Center to maximize outcomes while minimizing resources

Hendrick Medical Center, part of the Hendrick Health System in Abilene, Texas, needed a better way to operationalize its antimicrobial stewardship program and align with CDC Core Elements amid growing regulatory and reporting demands. The organization had long practiced stewardship, but manual processes made it difficult to track interventions, measure performance, and support timely decision-making. Wolters Kluwer ELM Solutions, through its Sentri7 clinical surveillance platform, was used to help address these challenges.

Wolters Kluwer ELM Solutions implemented Sentri7 to provide real-time antimicrobial alerts, intervention tracking, IV-to-oral conversion monitoring, drug-bug mismatch detection, antibiograms, and one-click reporting to NHSN and the CDC. The solution helped Hendrick Medical Center streamline workflows, change prescribing behavior, and support ongoing ASP performance improvement, while delivering more than $100,000 in cost savings in the first quarter of 2018 through interventions such as renal dose adjustments, MRSA policy enforcement, and IV-to-oral conversions.

Hendrick Medical Center