2022 Vigi Award Winners

Congratulations to the winners of the 2022 Vigi Awards! Read their stories to discover the creative ways that our star customers have made their hospitals a safer place with VigiLanz.

About the Vigi Awards

The annual Vigi Awards are designed to recognize how clinicians’ vigilance has contributed to healthier hospitals. In addition to broadening awareness of optimal and innovative uses of VigiLanz to support patient care, VigiLanz provides winners with a donation to the charity of their choice.

Experienced $98,000 in cost savings, 28% increase in average interventions per quarter

Pharmacy Team of the Year Winner

Pharmacy Team | Freeman Health System Joplin, Missouri

“Since implementing VigiLanz in June of 2018, we have created over 650 rules to help our pharmacy department intervene in ways that best serve our patients and our facility…We also use VigiLanz each year to help our pharmacy residents develop their year-long research project. We build rules or create data mining searches in VigiLanz to help them identify their patient population and gather data.”

  1. Adrienne Carey, Clinical Pharmacist, Freeman Health System
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Entry details

Recognized for:

  1. Quickly identifying patients in need of new medications or eligible for medication discontinuation using VigiLanz alerts

Uses VigiLanz for:

  1. Customized rules to capture positive MRSA nasal screens and alerts to notify pharmacists when to order mupirocin
  2. Customized data mining searches to capture positive and negative MRSA screens and cultures
  3. Pharmacy order tracking to manage and prevent drug shortages

Noteworthy results:

  1. $98,000 in cost savings since January 2022
  2. 162 patients identified to receive Mupirocin since January 2022
  3. 16% decrease in readmission rates when patients (identified by VigiLanz alerts) received pharmacy education
  4. Nasal screen study validation
  5. 28% increase in average interventions per quarter
  6. 75% increase (over $1.2M) in estimated cost savings per quarter
Provided outstanding leadership and patient care

Infection Preventionist of the Year Winner

Adriana Jimenez, PhD, Infection Prevention Manager | Jackson Health System Miami, Florida

“Adriana is one of the most informed users in the field of infection control and has been a strong advocate of the adoption of technology to improve patient care.”

  1. Lilian Abbo, Associate CMO, Infectious Diseases, Jackson Health System
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Entry details

Recognized for:

  1. Being an outstanding leader in the field of infection prevention and spearheading multiple product improvements, alerts, customized reports and activations

Uses VigiLanz for:

  1. Customized isolation rules, including rules around MRSA presence, transplants, therapeutic drug monitoring, COVID, and others
  2. Daily reports on activations and real-time notifications for C. diff, MRSA, KPC, and others
  3. Identification of bug/drug mismatches to optimize patient care and timely use of antimicrobials
  4. Renal dosing and monitoring to prevent toxicity

Noteworthy results:

  1. Optimized patient care and more timely use of antimicrobials
  2. Thorough reports on devices and analysis
  3. Reduced time needed by staff members
Increased voluntarily reported PN-related medication errors; saw reduced severity of reported events

Safety Team of the Year Winner

Safety Team | CHRISTUS Health Irving, Texas

“With increased awareness and standardization made possible by VigiLanz, the severity of the reported events diminished, with no further serious safety events reported and the most common classifications of harm being ‘no-harm’ and ‘minimal harm.’”

  1. Tina Collins, Corporate Director of Medication Safety, CHRISTUS Health
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Entry details

Recognized for:

  1. Enhancing error reporting processes and improving quality of reports using VigiLanz medication error reporting tools.

Uses VigiLanz for:

  1. Standardized event reporting to categorize harm and enable more timely and robust investigations

Noteworthy results:

  1. Enterprise-wide standardization of parenteral nutrition safety reporting
  2. Projected 200% increase in parenteral nutrition errors identified over the course of two years
  3. Reduced severity of reported events
  4. Cost avoidance
Identified patients most in need of a CMR, saved $652 per intervention

Rising Star Winner (tie)

Pharmacy Team | Benefis Health System Great Falls, Montana

“As a PGY1 resident, I was tasked with creating a VigiLanz rule to identify the most severe patients that would likely benefit from a thorough CMR, with the goal of increasing pharmacy efficiency and providing optimal patient care by developing and implementing a patient severity prioritization score.”

  1. Ethan Meide, PGY1 Pharmacy Resident, Benefis Health System
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Entry details

Recognized for:

  1. Contributing to the quick identification of patients most in need of a comprehensive medical review through custom VigiLanz rules and reports

Uses VigiLanz for:

  1. Customized reports to determine age, medical diagnosis, home medications, type of surgery, and readmission risk

Noteworthy results:

  1. Helped develop a prioritization tool responsible for 88.9% of all interventions made on days it was used, resulting in an additional 28.6% of pharmacy interventions that would otherwise have been missed
  2. Saved an estimated $652 per intervention in cost avoidance
Created rule enhancements leading to timely care

Rising Star Winner (tie)

Dechen Lama, IT Systems Administrator | Mount Sinai Health System New York, New York

“During the COVID-19 pandemic, Dechen was especially crucial in helping the Infection Prevention Department quickly create new rules to identify and isolate patients as data was transmitted to VigiLanz.”

  1. Jordan Ehni, Systems Integration Infection Preventionist, Mount Sinai Health System
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Entry details

Recognized for:

  1. Expertly putting clinical surveillance ideas into action to help her teams maximize their use of VigiLanz

Uses VigiLanz for:

  1. Customized rules to place patients in isolation, reportable disease, and HAI categories to help provide timely care for patients and safety for employees

Noteworthy results:

  1. Created rule enhancements to support the hospital with COVID-19 and monkeypox
  2. Ensuring smooth data flows
  3. Validated processes
Reduced vancomycin use, enabled pharmacist interventions

5-Star Patient Care Winner

Pharmacy and Antimicrobial Stewardship Team | Houston Methodist The Woodlands HospitalShenandoah, Texas

“Our team demonstrated that a pharmacist-driven MRSA screening protocol accompanied by VigiLanz rule-based alerts can provide timely de-escalation of antibiotics and appreciable cost savings.”

  1. Ran Xu, Director of Pharmacy, Houston Methodist The Woodlands Hospital
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Entry details

Recognized for:

  1. Using VigiLanz rule-based alerts to help appropriately decrease use of antibiotics for patients with MRSA pneumonia

Uses VigiLanz for:

  1. Alerts triggered by patients’ MRSA PCR results
  2. Customized antimicrobial therapy rules to detect and send an alert when patients are negative for MRSA after treatment

Noteworthy results:

  1. Significantly higher proportion of vancomycin discontinuation within 48 hours of a negative MRSA screen result
  2. Average duration of vancomycin therapy reduced by 24 hours
  3. 86 pharmacist interventions with VigiLanz rule-based alerts
  4. Estimated cost savings of $34 per pharmacist intervention ($2924 total)
Reduced errors, supported trend analysis

They Did What? Wow! Winner

Laura Stines, Infection Prevention Data Analyst | Cone Health System North Carolina

“Using VigiLanz to prompt the creation of the electronic worksheets saves time for our IP team, reduces data entry errors, and makes training new infection preventionists on HAI surveillance easier.”

  1. Laura Stines, Infection Prevention Data Analyst, Cone Health System
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Entry details

Recognized for:

  1. Creating novel dashboards and worksheets using VigiLanz to inform HAI prevention efforts

Uses VigiLanz for:

  1. Improved data collection on HAIs with automatic data entry into electronic dashboards

Noteworthy results:

  1. Reduced errors
  2. Reduced time needed from infection prevention and data analysts
  3. More data available for trend analysis for subject matter experts and clinical nurse specialists
  4. Easier training for new infection preventionists
Streamlined workflows, identified and analyzed drug diversions

Great Catch! Winner

Continental Division | HCA Healthcare Denver, Colorado

“VigiLanz allows a much more streamlined approach to medication compliance work compared to pulling the data from the electronic health record directly…The time we spend interpreting and reviewing data is so much more meaningful because of the efficiencies VigiLanz provides us for actual data gathering.”

  1. Holly Monatt, Vice President of Pharmacy Services, HCA Health System
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Entry details

Recognized for:

  1. Detecting instances of drug diversions and conducting data-driven investigations to monitor care using data provided by VigiLanz

Uses VigiLanz for:

  1. Easy-to-read patient care data
  2. Medication use data

Noteworthy results:

  1. Streamlined workflows
  2. Compliance support
  3. Provider evaluation
  4. Medication monitoring to support ordering and prevent shortages
  5. Cost savings
Reduced use of antibiotics, cleared penicillin allergy labels

Stewardship Superstar Winner

Stewardship Team | Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center Cincinnati, Ohio

“VigiLanz has helped clear many Penicillin allergy labels and solidify the research that over 95% of children are able to tolerate Penicillin in the future after allergy testing. This has helped our organization cut costs and reduce healthcare spending by decreasing admission length of stays, utilizing a more preferred (and commonly less expensive) antibiotic, and preventing unnecessary use of broad spectrum antibiotics.”

  1. Michelle Wessels, Registered Nurse, Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center
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Entry details

Recognized for:

  1. Identifying pediatric patients using VigiLanz who may no longer be allergic to Penicillin and could benefit from it

Uses VigiLanz for:

  1. Customized reports
  2. Email notifications

Noteworthy results:

  1. Cleared allergy labels on many tested children who are now able to receive Penicillin
  2. Reduced hospital length of stay and overall costs
  3. Provider evaluation
  4. Increased ability to use less expensive antibiotics
  5. Reduced use of antibiotics

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