Advanced Nurse Call Solutions for Optimum Efficiency and Patient Care

By Alex Strauss

For healthcare facilities committed to optimizing their operations, the choice of a vendor for their nurse call system is crucial. Over its 16 year history, DTB Systems, an authorized Jeron dealer serving states across the upper Midwest, has established itself as a leader in healthcare technology integration, including some of the most advanced nurse call systems available.

"If you have to have a nurse call system to meet code requirements, you might as well buy something that's going to give you a return on investment," says Jerry Weiler, Vice President of Business Development at DTB Systems. "Something that's going to help you retain staff, not need as much staff, and not be weighed down by a lot of service needs."

Weiler says Jeron has been a top name in nurse call systems since 1962. DTB specializes in their two primary products: the Provider 790 and the Provider 700.

Jeron's Nurse Call Solutions from DTB

The Provider 790 is Jeron's most advanced acute care solution, featuring integrated wireless phone systems, smartphone connectivity, and touchscreen operations. The Provider 790 provides real-time tracking of staff location, automated rounding notifications, and comprehensive workflow management. Weiler says the system excels in both hospital and clinical settings, allowing healthcare providers to efficiently manage patient visits, track procedures, and coordinate specialist consultations.

"The nurses have a workflow that they need to follow. The construction is set up in a particular way," Weiler explains. "To make that workflow work, you have to have a system that works along with it. If you are just putting in a nurse call system that is just there to meet code, it may not give them the functionality that they need."

The Provider 700, while more streamlined, also delivers robust functionality for acute, skilled, and sub-acute facilities. It incorporates advanced networking capabilities to manage alerts and communications between patients and caregivers. The system also supports direct alerts to staff wireless phones and provides detailed documentation of all patient-staff interactions, ensuring accountability and helping facilities identify areas where response times could be improved.

Why Choose DTB Systems?

How can a facility know which system will work best for them and how to properly integrate it into their operations? Weiler says that's where DTB excels.

"There are a lot of folks who sell some of the same products, but they don't have the skill set or knowledge to know how to design and customize them appropriately," he explains. As a systems integrator, CTB's approach is more comprehensive.

"Our tagline is 'we make buildings smarter'," says Weiler. "If you have nothing, we can pull everything together and make it cohesive. If you have something already in place, we can design something that makes it cohesive with what you have on board already."

This expertise can be particularly beneficial in some modern hospital designs. "A lot of newer hospitals are set up with an on-stage, off-stage system. The patient room areas are on-stage, and the nurses' station and hallways, etc., are 'off-stage'," Weiler notes. "The people off-stage need to know if the people who are on-stage have everything under control."

Reliability and Accessibility

Every Jeron system comes with a five-year warranty on the products and parts. Importantly, with so many supply chain problems in recent years, 98 percent of Jeron's products are made in the US, most manufactured in Illinois.

With offices in South Dakota and Minnesota, DTB Systems serves healthcare facilities across the Dakotas, Minnesota, Iowa, Nebraska, western Wisconsin, parts of Montana, and Wyoming. Their solutions work for facilities of all sizes, "from a large Sanford hospital to a rural critical access hospital," as Weiler puts it, adding, "We are very good with critical access hospitals because we design solutions that are rock-solid. They don't need a lot of maintenance and upkeep. They don't have constant failures."

For more information about DTB Systems' nurse call solutions and other smart building technologies, visit DTBSystems.com.