European award for the care of tomorrow
Aabenraa, Denmark – ABENA received this European award for the digital continence solution ‘ABENA Nova with MediSens’, with which it also won the National Innovation Award last year.
ABENA was nominated for the Kate Granger Award by the manager of the health-care institution Evean Oostergouw. The institution implemented ABENA Nova in one of its nursing homes in 2018 and here, the number of wet beds decreased by 76% due to the intelligent continence solution. At the same time, the implementation resulted in a 30% reduction in work pressure. Thus, the average number of changes went down from 3.5 to 2.4 per resident per day.
ABENA Nova contributes to a solution for the staff shortages in health care – one of the biggest problems of this time. Moreover, a 20% cost saving was measured on continence care, as well as a time saving of 28 %. Due to these results, Evean Oostergouw was proclaimed ‘Career Innovator 2019’ by the Ministry of Health, Welfare and Sport in the Netherlands in January.
Great impact on people’s well-being
“The use of ABENA Nova has a great impact on the well-being of residents in nursing homes and other institutions”, explains CEO of the ABENA Group, Preben Terp-Nielsen: “By avoiding wet clothing and wet beds, the intelligent continence solution ensures that people experience less discomfort and shame. And this goes hand-in-hand with our mission: to improve quality of life for people living with incontinence.”
ABENA is a Danish family-owned production and commerce company with over 1,800 employees worldwide, based in Aabenaa in Denmark.
The Group is represented by subsidiaries in numerous countries, supplying more than 39,000 different products to over 90 countries worldwide.
ABENA is committed to developing and delivering health-care solutions that improve people’s quality of life.
In collaboration with the American technology company MediSens Wireless, ABENA developed the intelligent continence solution, ‘ABENA Nova’, for which it today received the European ‘Kate Granger Award for Compassionate Care’.
In 2018, ABENA also won the National Health Innovation Award.