Saxenhoj Psychiatric Hospital

Staff safety

The Saxenhoj Psychiatric institution is in the island of Lolland, Denmark. The institution spans multiple buildings and floors. It currently holds 300 psychiatric patients, 100 of whom live in the hospital. Recently, the institution required a special new psychiatric staff safety system.

Saxenhoj expanded over the years and has a combination of old panic alarm systems in different buildings. There are separate new Siemens fire alarm system and an old radio communication system.

Above all, Saxenhoj wanted to integrate these solutions into one platform. This is, obviously, in order to reduce the complexity and knowledge required to respond to emergency events. First of all, the employees at the institution required a personal, radio-based panic button. Secondly, such button could also provide crucial information about the employee position both inside the buildings and around the outside areas. Additionally, some rooms required room level positioning while the others just needed positioning on the floor level.

In addition to the staff panic alerting and positioning service, the new system had to also handle the patient calls from the disabled patients’ rooms. Also, it had to provide notifications about fire in the facility. One system had to manage all the information at the same time.

Panic Alarm System

ZONITH deployed a panic alarm system comprising of two different handheld devices. The first one is an emergency response solution activated by a push-button alarm on a radio handset.

The second one doubles as an ID card holder with a discrete panic button. Hence, when the alarm is raised the nearby colleagues receive notification via text message. The alarm text includes the name of the person in distress along with their indoor or outdoor position.

This allows the response team to react especially quickly towards a potentially life-threatening situation.

Indoor positioning system

The indoor staff positioning system, which includes 130 Bluetooth receiving units was therefore installed in the buildings. These units enable the location of the staff carrying Bluetooth devices when a distress situation occurs. Also, ZONITH placed small discrete Bluetooth antennas in the ceilings of the rooms where the positioning equipment was necessary.

Outdoor positioning system

It should be noted that many large outdoor areas surround Saxenhoj. That areas are obviously not easy to monitor. Nevertheless, once a staff member carrying a handset leaves any of the buildings, the handset will seamlessly switch from indoor positioning to GPS tracking. This way the system could as well position them in the parking lot and other outdoor areas. Furthermore, ZONITH created a new GPS Geo-Fence for more specific outdoor location in case of alarm.

Monitor multiple alarm sources

Finally, ZONITH’s alarm handling software platform was configured to monitor staff panic alarms, fire alarms and patient calls.

Key Benefits

  • Increases coverage to include every meter of the facility from the hospital rooms to the parking lot.

  • Enables distribution and managing of a variety of alarms from various vendors on one platform.

  • Logs all the alarms for post-incident reporting.

  • Offers a cost-effective option for an all-in-one solution.

  • Increases the psychiatric staff safety throughout the entire hospital.

  • Allows alarm handling and both indoor/outdoor positioning from one wireless device.

Carsten Andersen, Chief Technician

“It was key to our staff to get a new, reliable panic alerting system with large coverage and positioning capabilities. By selecting the system from ZONITH’s we have a solution that can do it all”

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