Communications for today... and tomorrow.
Tek-CARE®400 Installed at Angel Medical Center
Now the patients and staff at Angel Medical Center in Franklin, North Carolina
will enjoy the benefits of one of the most advanced nurse call systems on the market,
designed and manufactured by TekTone® Sound & Signal Mfg., Inc.
TekTone®'s Tek-CARE®400 nurse call system was recently
purchased and installed at Angel by Modern Systems, a TekTone® Elite Partner.
"I was very impressed with the Tek-CARE®400. They really put a lot of time into things we'd been looking for for the past several years," said Chief Nursing Officer Tammy Dills.
The Tek-CARE®400 system can be programmed to meet a facility's specific needs and goals, while providing a choice of centralized or decentralized system configurations. Tek-CARE®400 runs on a proprietary network, and requires no personal computers (which are prone to lockups and viruses).
The Tek-CARE®400 features a touchscreen master station, a variety of patient stations, peripheral devices and pagers, and management and reporting software. The master station has a small footprint, is spill resistant, centrally powered, and completely self-contained. Full duplex audio between master and patient stations ensure that no word is missed and communications are crystal clear.
"I believe the new system will provide better communication between patients and staff, as well as staff to staff," said Dills.
The touchscreen master station provides both a graphical icon view and a list view of the unit, and can display calls from the entire facility. The master includes a slide-out keyboard for creating custom pages and a membrane keypad for the most commonly used functions.
"I believe the system will be beneficial because of its simplicity of use," said Women and Children's Unit Director Roberta Bowles. "It's easy to use. It improves communication overall, which is very important. It also provides more privacy to our patients, because a nurse can pick up the phone now and talk to a patient about a problem instead of having the problem [broadcast] for the whole nurses' station to hear."
Pagers provide staff with a simple, cost-effective way to increase mobility and productivity-by sending calls to them almost instantaneously. Setting the pagers to vibrate mode greatly reduces noise and virtually eliminates overhead paging.
Dills said, "I believe it will provide a quieter environment for our hospital." Dills also said, "Angel Medical Center is very pleased to be working collaboratively with TekTone®. I believe the new nurse call system will truly benefit our patients and staff. We're glad to be working with a local company that offers a dedicated, hard working staff devoted to patient safety and customer satisfaction."
Founded in 1973, TekTone® Sound & Signal Mfg., Inc., a family-owned business, opened its manufacturing facility in Franklin in 1989. TekTone®'s quality management system has been registered by Underwriters Laboratories Inc. (UL) to the ISO 9001:2000 standard since 2002. The company designs and manufactures nurse call, intercom, apartment entry, emergency call, radio pocket paging and area of rescue assistance systems. TekTone® nurse call systems are found in assisted living facilities, nursing homes, and public and private hospitals throughout the US, Canada, Mexico, South America, Asia and the Caribbean.
TekTone® Sound & Signal Mfg., Inc.
277 Industrial Park Road 
Franklin, NC 28734
USA
Phone: (828) 524-9967
Fax: (828) 524-9968
Sales: (800) 327-8466
Tech Support: (800) 332-6608
