Vascular Services

Benefits of Out Sourcing

Benefits of Outsourcing PICC Placements

The biggest benefit of outsourcing is expertise, patient satisfaction and cost effectiveness as well as freeing up interventional radiology from these procedures. First Response’s professional staff of experienced, certified vascular nurse specialists use the most advanced equipment to help focus on proper techniques for best practices in infection prevention. 

Using an outsourced PICC company is perhaps the most cost-effective and efficient model for PICC care in the future. There are many out source companies performing these procedures that have established PICC insertion practices to place, care and educate facilities on all matters relating to vascular procedures.

Our nurses are well trained to perform the high levels of maximal sterile barrier and aseptic techniques during catheter placement that minimizes infection rate and increases success rate. When PICC care is outsourced costs are significantly lower. Having an experience nurse perform the procedures in the patient’s room, instead of being sent to interventional radiology having to utilizing doctors and technicians, radiology nurses and transport staff, First Response Clinical Services can save a facility thousands of dollars.

The medical staff can get quite busy and as a result requests for PICC placements to radiology or interventional departments could be postponed or completely rescheduled due to more urgent procedures, which may take precedence. With our “OnCall” scheduling service it is easy to place a request for a procedure and know a qualified nurse from First Response is on their way.

The biggest benefit of outsourcing is expertise, patient satisfaction and cost effectiveness as well as freeing up interventional radiology from these procedures. First Response’s professional staff of experienced, certified vascular nurse specialists use the most advanced equipment to help focus on proper techniques for best practices in infection prevention.

By healthcare personnel taking a proactive approach in identifying patients early in the admission process, having PICC lines placed promptly provides many benefits for numerous entities. Benefits include, but are not limited to the following: decreased length of stay, operational costs, pain and discomfort while increasing patient satisfaction, profits (payment based upon admitting DRG), utilization of staff time, and response time for treatments.