A smart solution for temporary identification
helps hospitals prevent crime
and the spread of disease
How do hospitals identify and keep track of visitors, while making it easy for staff, convenient for visitors, and secure for everyone?
Whether they use a visitor management system that’s hand-written or computerized, thousands of facilities worldwide have turned to Visitor Pass, the smart solution for temporary identification.
A manual system that’s really automatic
Here’s how the Visitor Pass Registry Book streamlines visitor management. A visitor signs in to the unique registry book. This creates an I.D. badge for them to wear during their stay. Signing in also creates a confidential duplicate visitor log automatically. This saves time at the front desk and provides a portable record of every visitor, in case of fire or other emergency.
Security you can see
For extra security, customers choose the Expiring Visitor Pass with its color-changing badge option. At sign-in, a patented fold-under tab activates, in one step, a tamperproof process that makes the badge change color overnight. Once voided, this prevents the badge from being reused and visitors from re-entering your facility without registering again.
Jack Mayoros, Director of Security at St. Francis Hospital in Hartford, Connecticut, implemented Expiring Visitor Pass in the hospital and in one of the physician office buildings.
“We had experienced an increase in thefts over the prior eight months,” he recalled. “By funneling people to sign in, and by issuing the Visitor Pass, we cut our thefts to zero.”
The expiring option you choose depends on what benefit is most important: the simplicity provided by the TAB-Expiring Visitor Pass, the visibility offered by the FULL version, or the economy and flexibility of expiring DOTS.
Custom printed to order (by floor, for example)
A leading chain of hospitals in Ohio has its badges printed with its color logo to discourage forgery. Its badges are also color-coded with the name of different departments. For example, Emergency is green, ICU is orange, OB is pink, Pediatrics is blue, and Critical Care is red. This helps hospital personnel identify visitors more easily by their destination, especially if unfamiliar surroundings and the stress of a hospital visit cause them to stray.
“Visitor Pass helps us identify and assist people with greater efficiency, and allows us to better utilize our staff,” says Stephen Miller, Shift Supervisor at St. Francis. “Cameras only see so much.”
Visitor Passes are available for all types of visitors, such as vendors and volunteers, and can be quickly customized (usually within two business days) with an organization’s name and logo, as desired. They are manufactured in the United States by Data Management, Inc., of Farmington, CT.
Protecting against H1N1
A hospital in San Jose, California, took extra precautions to protect against the H1N1 Flu by ordering five times its usual quantity of Visitor Pass Registry Books.
“We are tagging everyone who walks through the door,” said the hospital’s security manager. If there’s an outbreak of the virus, the staff will be able to contact all the visitors who might have come into contact with it. Plus, the disposability of Visitor Passes means germs aren’t being spread by plastic badges that are reused. As an extra precaution, some hospitals ask for anti-microbial pens when they order.
Now available in direct thermal printer rolls
All options for Expiring Visitor Passes are now available in rolls for direct thermal printers, satisfying the needs of computerized visitor management systems as well. “Whatever your security requirements, visitor traffic, or budget,” says Richard Reed, the company’s V.P. of Business Development, “we have a solution for managing visitors.”
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