Case Study
Desire to Improve Safety and Patient Care PromptsPenn State Hershey Medical Centerto Upgrade To A Pevco Pneumatic Tube System
Desire to Improve Safety and Patient Care PromptsPenn State Hershey Medical Centerto Upgrade To A Pevco Pneumatic Tube System
When administrators at Penn State Milton S. Hershey Medical Center considered adding life-saving blood products to the list of items transported in their pneumatic tube system, they knew safety was paramount. They also knew the pneumatic tube system they were using at the time was not up to the task. “We were not confident in our previous tube system’s ability to accurately track and confirm the arrival of our blood products, ” said Christi