Bison Creek Innovations
Bison Creek Innovations focuses on ideation, innovation and product development for healthcare spaces. We re-envision the healthcare experience by creating products that support a healing, safe and efficient environment for all healthcare users. The Founder of Bison Creek Innovations is a Nurse Innovator and entrepreneur who is passionate about designing products that support nurses in the care they provide to their patients.
Mission and Goals:
Hospitalized patients leave contaminated tissues and trash on their overbed tables because they cannot reach the trash can on the floor. The patient’s overbed table is one of the most contaminated surfaces in the patient room. Leaving mucous-laden tissues and trash on the patient’s overbed table can become a potential breeding ground for transmission of pathogens that can result in Healthcare Acquired Infections (HAIs). CDC estimates that HAIs culminate in 722,000 infections and 75,000 patient deaths annually. HAIs are costly – the financial results are $28B to $33B in excess costs annually. Inefficient patient trash removal process results in hours of wasteful staff time and miles of steps resulting in wasteful work that does not add any value to patient care. Bison Creek Innovations T-BIN™ Patient Trash Disposal System provides a utility-patented, plastic, and disposable single patient use trash disposal system comprised of a ring and paper container that attaches to the patient’s overbed table and locates within easy patient reach. T-BIN™ keeps the patient’s environment and staff hands cleaner. Cleaner healthcare environment supports patient safety and dignity; reinforces hospital reimbursement and brand image; enhances staff efficiencies and time spent on patient care. We are in the process of either seeking startup investment to launch the T-BIN™, Joint Venture with a healthcare system to launch the T-BIN™, or license the T-BIN™ to a patient care medical supply company.
Additional Info:
Kerrie Cardon has over 40 years of comprehensive experience in the healthcare profession. She started her career trajectory as a bedside nurse for 14 years before becoming a healthcare architect. This current phase of Kerrie’s career is focused on innovation, inventing and product development with a specific focus on healthcare product design. Being a former bedside nurse gave Kerrie the background to understand products and processes needed to support efficient and safe workflow. Moving into the healthcare architecture, innovation and inventing realms provided the wholistic understanding necessary to develop products that are crucial to safe and efficient patient care. Reflecting on the patient trash disposal process, Kerrie realized that patients using the emesis and bath basins for mucous-laden tissues and trash created a cross contamination issue on the patient’s overbed table. Staff cleaning out the emesis and bath basins results in the potential for hand contamination and transmission of pathogens. Staff literally walks miles and spends hours cleaning basins and cleaning the top of the patient’s overbed table resulting in non-value added work that does not contribute to safe and efficient patient care. Nurses are experiencing burnout and this one inefficient and unsafe process adds to the stress of the staff work environment. The T-BIN™ is a very simple and logical idea that enables patients to simply drop their own soiled tissues and trash into a conveniently located container. Staff can simply remove and replace the paper container when full without touching the contents. The T-BIN™ keeps staff hands and the patient’s overbed table cleaner. We recently completed phase 2 of experiential trials within the VA healthcare system at 9 sites across the U.S. 100% of VA Infection Preventionists and 80% of VA nurses would recommend using the T-BIN™. Kerrie is passionate about designing products that support nurses in the care they provide to their patients.
Business Info:
PO Box 1890, Whitefish, MT 59937
406-270-2614
https://www.linkedin.com/in/kerrie-cardon-rn-hc-architect-innovator-inventor-0430925/