Safety First: More Than a ‘Panic Button’. One of the prime concerns when it came to retaining quality staff was their safety. “Encountering a very rare and deadly disease was not our primary concern in 2009,” Olmstead says. “We were worried about violence in the ED, and the safety of our staff. You turn on the news and you see it everywhere – in the schools, in the malls. The violence is terrible. We asked ourselves, ‘What’s the best system we can put in place to take care of our people?’” The answer was a Real-time Locating System (RTLS) from Versus Technology, purchased through and implemented by Certified Versus System Integrator Communications Company of South Bend.

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