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Best, Safest, Smartest Cubicle Curtain How changing your curtains can impact: The Bottom Line Patient Throughput Thousands of man hours / year in increased efficiency Control of cross contamination Dramatic increase of Visual Consistency Sustainability commitment Joint Commission compliance protocol
What drove Acute care to shift to recyclable/
disposable curtains?
500
Disposable curtains
annual sales
OTRT witnessed the healthcare market shifting from
400
300
washable curtains to disposable/recyclable in 2015
Textile curtains
200 Hospitals began to migrate to cost effective disposable/ recyclable curtains
annual sales
driven in the higher risk areas (ED, ICU, Dialysis, Infection Control, Burn units)
100
and through internal demand, quickly spread to other areas in the hospital.
0
2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020
Shift started in 2015
We identify 3 Key Drivers
Expensive Cost Infection Control Visual Consistency
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High costs
Owning textile cubicle curtain is a large investment including:
At end of life,
Spare curtains On going
High initial curtains go to
and laundering,
acquisition the landfill and
inconsistent wear and
cost the process
sizing losses
starts again
Contrast with the adoption of the On the Right Track System
Laundry Acquisition Labor Spare
Control Laundry Move curtains to Reduce curtain Eliminate cost and
costs operating budget from management management of textile
capital expenditure spares
Reduce handling Reduce curtain change
Simplify design change time from 20 minutes to Create JIT supply
Eliminate curtain for seasonal or the 2 minutes method to minimize
losses departmental needs handling and control
Eliminate risk of Ladder budget
Track inventory for accidents.
budget control
Reduce Cleaning
Compliance costs
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Cross contamination
Cubicle curtains are proven
The elephant in the room
sources of HAI's
Rank as the sixth most commonly touched surface.
42% of privacy curtains are contaminated with
Vancomycin-Resistant Enterococci (VRE), 22% Healthcare-associated pathogens left on curtains
are transferred to hands.
with methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus
and 4 % Clostridium difficile" The survival time of MRSA,VRE, C. Diff, and HAI's
is long and hard to remove by washing curtains.
Dr Curtis Donskey, Director of Infection Control,
Disposable cubicle curtains tackle the problem at
Cleveland Veterans Affairs Medical Center
its roots by providing brand new curtains every
(Source: Contamination of Hospital Curtains with change out.
Healthcare-Associated Pathogens)
Adapted from Hota B, et al. Clin Infect Dis 2004;39:1182-9
and Kramer A, et al. BMC Infectious Diseases 2006;6:130
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Visually Consistent
The inconsistent look of cubicle curtains presents a disordered
hospital image and results in a bad patient experience.
Privacy curtains are “visual real estate” in healthcare design, typically required to be many different
sizes, heights, widths and in different styles, designs across the organization.
Achieving consistency has been very difficult for a healthcare system due to different track
dimensions, room layouts, ceiling heights, and various curtain patterns.
The inconsistency throughout the facility, mis-matched and wrong-sized curtains used side by side,
creates a noticeably disorganized look, leading patients to observe a messy and uncomfortable
image of the hospital.
Research notes that patients’ perception and attitudes to hospital environments help to determine
the factors that contribute to their healing.
"Our patients told us when they walk in and see the curtains look different color or
shapes, they feel less positive and welcome of that hospital"
-- Patient Experience Manager
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Let’s explore why On The Right Track
cubicle curtains are installed in over
What makes 175,000+ beds across North America,
On The Right Track Asia, and the Middle East.
special? We are shipping 80,000
recyclable/disposable curtains every
month across North America.
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Increase patient throughput
Speed up Patient Throughput to ensure proper cleaning and reduce new patient waiting time.
Changing curtains normally requires twenty minutes, a ladder, and often necessitates two hospital
staff, now merely needs two minutes and no ladder.
Allows staff to focus on other patient centric duty, reduce risk, and increase patient satisfaction.
The ease of use Time is money
Using The Grabber®, curtains can be On The Right Track cuts the time to remove and replace
curtains by 90% (from 20 minutes to 2 minutes) or even
replaced in under two minutes by a single
less, saving tens of thousands of hours and allows
person without a ladder.
employees to focus on other client-centered
responsibilities.
Click here to see how to use The Grabber
Hours of changing curtains with traditional system V.S. OTRT system
12,500
10,000
7,500
70 daily discharges
5,000
save more than
Traditional OTRT 7,000 hours annually
2,500
0
Annually
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Easy compliance
Changeout™ software
Reduce infection risks
makes easy compliance
The frequent replace and recycle system Changeout™ is OTRT’s cloud-based software that
has proven to reduce the spread of enables the management team to track cubicle
hospital acquired infection. curtain inventory, location, status and condition
Replace the curtains with ease based on Provides real-time reports to monitor curtains as
hospital-defined protocol. new, used, or disposed. Easier to identify the
curtains that need to be replaced and efficiently
Manufactured in alignment with Healthier monitor the compliance in different the areas at
Hospitals guidance for Safer Chemicals the same time.
and 100% recyclable curtains.
Built-in filters allow the administrators to create a
customized report based on location, date range,
curtain types, and curtain condition.
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Patient experience
Consistent aesthetic
Peacefully quiet
throughout the facilities
On The Right Track customizes track to 14 inch Traditional hospital curtains create the loud
AFF, no matter the height of the ceiling, so that all screeching noise. The noise from the metal chains on
of the privacy curtains are the exact same height. metal track is a constant source of disruption to
patients need for healthy rest.
The OTRT solution, uses panels that are all 70”
wide. You simply snap on a new panel to manage On The Right Track@ system which uses special
longer track needs. loops on a patented track that glide in silence.
Curtains are designed to be uniform in height, and Consistently increase patient satisfaction as
with the panel solution, eliminate the time- measured in HCAHPS scores and help hospitals
consuming task of sorting. improve quiet-care.
All of my nursing and clinical staff love the On The Right Track System®. Most importantly, my
patients love it!. No more noisy hooks and rollers getting stuck in the track."
--Greg Meyers, ARHS Assistant System Director EVS Department, Charles A. Cannon Hospital
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Sustainable & Recyclable
Our shared commitment to
The goal of sustainability
environmental sustainability
As healthcare manufacturers and institutions, we OTRT recyclable/disposable curtains
can make smart decisions that can protect both alleviate/eliminate the laundry process.
the patients and the planet.
100% recyclable product substantially
Through The OTRT Recycling Program™, OTRT reduces landfill waste.
and your team work together to determine the
weekly/monthly return cycle around your Manufactured to the Healthier Hospitals
hospital needs. We take care of the consolidation Healthier Interiors Goal of being free from
and recycling of disposable curtains into unsafe chemicals.
polypropylene raw materials that can be
recreated into useful healthcare product including OTRT recyclable curtains can be recycled
storage totes, basins, and trays. with other Class #5 PP products like blue
wraps.
We recycle blue wrap in our hospital, and we picked On The Right Track’s recyclable
curtains as our standard because they provide a real domestic recycling program that
keeps plastic out of the ocean."
--Iris Verdi, VP of Facilities and Support Services
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Large healthcare network Public, big city hospital Pediatric care
8 acute care hospitals , 3000+beds, 600 facilities 600 beds, public funding, approximate 700,000 Leading pediatric hospital and research
annual patient visits medical center in Boston area.
Problem: expensive laundry costs/ lack of
consistent looking curtains /need curtain Problem: Inconsistent Curtains throughout facility Problem: Designers were unable to find
change compliance appropriate patterns for teens an, children
COO sees opportunity to create positive first
Create solution strategy for complete overhaul impression for patients supporting their Partnered with OTRT to create a recyclable/
of the cubicle curtains throughout all locations commitment to consistent, high level care. disposable custom print.
including clinics.
Deployed a universal height and pattern throughout Strategic planning included design,
Saving 20,000 labor hours annually. One Curtain the system. Patients see organized facility manufacture, and implementation.
sku for the entire Organization management through a well-organized, welcome
image. Converted entire hospital to single custom
pattern.
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Testimonials
United Health Services
I was introduced to “On the right track” at a previous A 500-bed facility with 2 locations in
hospital and worked closely with the “On the right track” the upstate New York. A tertiary care
team having it installed throughout the hospital with both center and nonprofit network of
disposable and non-disposable curtains. I have since been hospitals, with physician practice
reassigned to another hospital where the system is in place offices and home health agencies
in various departments. However, I have introduced this serving a seven-county region.
hospital to the disposables and the hospital staff are very
pleased with the product. I recommend the system highly as And more than 26,000 discharges
it is so much more user friendly than the typical hooks and and over 55,000 patients treated in
chains." the emergency departments annually.
--Crothal Healthcare "With the full conversion of our textile cubicle curtains and antiquated track system
to On the Right Track recyclable system, we have completely standardized 100
percent of our curtains."
On The Right Track® Cubicle Curtain system is truly the --Matt Masse, EVS director at United Health Services Hospitals.
best thing since sliced bread! All of my nursing and clinical
staffs love it; the Plant Operations staff love it due to
virtually no maintenance; my Environmental Services staffs "Instead of having dozens of different colors, patterns and sizes, we now have one
love it due to it being so easy to change, clean or launder standardized panel. This allows us to save critical time in finding the right curtains
and, most importantly, my patients love it! No more noisy
for the right units and getting them changed safely and quickly." Said Rich Keehle,
chain and bearings getting stuck in the track causing the
curtain to get hung up. And, the easily retrofitted hardware senior director of Support Services at the hospitals, "We have already realized the
was so simple to convert, I did it myself! improvement in discharge room turnover timeliness with OTRT. We have decreased
--EVS Director
our turnaround time by 15 minutes just on replacing the curtains with OTRT."
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