Actionable Insights to Prevent Healthcare-Associated Infections
Stop outbreaks before they start.
The Problem
Healthcare teams lack the training, resources, and time to sample consistently and effectively across all locations.
Healthcare laboratories, such as clinical microbiology labs, do not collect nor test environmental samples, due to differences in expertise, methods, and technology, leaving healthcare leaders guessing when and where the next outbreak will happen.
Healthcare facilities do not have the resources available to invest in developing and deploying versatile, reliable, and scalable monitoring methods and lab capabilities to gain insights for risk-based systemic changes.
Healthcare leaders don’t have actionable information about the germs that grow in their facilities, preventing them from mitigating infection risk.
Healthcare leaders look for outbreaks using lagging indicators, such as 30-day readmission rates, hand hygiene compliance, and clinical culture reports, allowing outbreaks to reach critical mass before detection.
During budget crunches, healthcare administrators outsource environmental services and infection prevention without a method for independently monitoring performance quality.
Our Solution
Culturewell provides actionable insights for healthcare-associated infection (HAI) prevention.
Healthcare systems need data-driven, evidence-based insights into their facilities’ germ risk to break the chain of transmission of HAIs, which increase length of stay, morbidity, and mortality and lead to financial penalties, poor quality scores, and unreimbursed costs.
Culturewell’s Infection Insights & Cleaning Compliance Audit Platform supports healthcare facilities by outsourcing the physical and scientific burden of performing environmental monitoring and cleanliness audits, empowering healthcare teams to take action on remediation and improvement initiatives.
When there is an outbreak, every day matters as more vulnerable patients are being exposed. Identifying cleaning gaps and germ reservoirs fast is just the first step. Hospital teams need answers on how to address the problems. Even better would be getting ahead of the game to prevent outbreaks before they start.
Culturewell professionals are trained and calibrated to sample high-touch surfaces the same way every time, enabling germ identification, quantification, and trending.
Culturewell’s proteomics-enabled process identifies germs like bacteria, yeast, and mold without you specifying in advance what you are looking for. We will recover it if it is alive and able to grow. We routinely detect MRSA, C. diff, Candida auris, Salmonella, and hundreds of other types.
Opt-in critical result notifications, test results as soon as 18 hours after sample receipt in our laboratory, and digital results and mitigation recommendations available in near-real time.
By detecting low levels (<1 CFU/cm2; 100x better than previous approaches) of risky germs on previously cleaned surfaces, Culturewell’s technology can identify and quantify viable germs growing on surfaces better than tools like ATP, traditional swabbing, and cleaning and hoping for the best.
With easy-to-share germ risk heatmaps and expert-curated, evidence-based cleaning recommendations, we answer what to focus on and what to do to make it better, eliminating time lost to online researching.
Culturewell is an independent third-party laboratory built to provide accurate, unbiased results designed specifically to meet the needs of healthcare.
How to Use Culturewell’s Solution
Outbreak Rapid Response
Outbreak Rapid Response
How can I find the source of an outbreak?
- I want to determine what microbe is causing the outbreak
- I want to map out infection risk hotspots.
- I want to know how much of the microbe is there
- I want to stop the outbreak
- I want to implement evidence-based interventions
Cleaning Compliance Program
Cleaning Compliance Program
How do I know if my team is cleaning appropriately?
- I want to strategically deploy resources to reduce transmission of HAIs.
- I want to improve cleanliness survey scores.
- I want to share success and failures with stakeholders to build support for quality initiatives.
- I want to monitor my facility for trends and intervene before people are hurt.
- I want to improve my EVS training programs.
Disinfection Efficacy Testing
Disinfection Efficacy Testing
Does a vendor’s disinfection technology work?
- I want an independent third party to evaluate the efficacy of a new product or technology during a product demo in my facility.
- I want to prove technologies actually work before presenting them to stakeholders.
- I want to make evidence-based purchasing decisions.