"Buzzy was mentioned on our last Press Gaineys! 

Wow!  As of 11-1-11 Buzzy is currently being used or trialled in over 300 hospitals in 46 states that want to increase hospital quality and patient satisfaction.  In addition, many allergy, immunology, pediatric and dermatology clinics have gotten a Buzzy.   If you'd like to see which hospital is using Buzzy and/or Bee-Stractors, check below.   Thanks to those who have sent quotes (we'd love more!) and thanks for caring about pain relief.  Check out the Poke-a-dot plan some of these visionaries implemented!

One of the primary components of patient satisfaction is caregiver's attention to pain.  "As a commitment to our patients, we are dedicated not only to our profession but our quality of care as well. Resultantly, we are proud to introduce Buzzy®, a device used specifically for our child patients to ensure the most comfortable and pleasant experience possible."  To let your patients know you care enough to offer Buzzy, like Crutchfield Dermatology did, there are services that offer a free press release.

AK: Alaska Children's Heart, Anchorage

AL: Children's Hospital, Birmingham; USA Pediatrics Allergy, Mobile;

AR: Arkansas Children's, Little Rock; Paragould Pediatrics, Paragould;

AZ: Children's Mercy, Bakersfield; Conway Children's Clinic; All About Kids Pediatrics, Tempe; SunLife Family Health, San Manuel; Scotsdale Healthcare; CHW Mercy Southwest, Phoenix;

CA: Kaiser Permanente, Roseville; Kaiser Permanente Union City; Kaiser Permente Temecula; Palo Alto Medical Centers - Mountainview, Sunnyvale, Palo Alto; Lucile Packard Stanford Hospital; UC Davis Medical Center; Sutter General Hospital; WellBeing Center, Torrance; Loma Linda Medical Center; Oroville Hospital; MSJMC Pediatrics, Carmichael; Torrance Memorial Medical; Southbay Allergy and Asthma, Torrance; Redding Allergy and Asthma; Sharp Health Care, San Diego; Apollo College, Mission Viejo; California Pacific Medical, San Francisco; CHOC Children's Hospital, Orange County; Clovis Medical Group; Desert Regional Medical, Palm Springs; REdlands Community Hospital, Perris; Emmanuel Medical Center, Turlock; Sutter Memorial Hospital, Sacramento; Sutter Health Sacsierra, Sacramento; El Camino Pediatrics, Encinitas; Providence St. Joseph, Burbank; Mercy Hospital Southwest, Bakersfield; Mercy Hospital Truxton, Bakersfield;

CO:  Mountain Pediatrics, Evergreen;  National Jewish Health, Denver; Colorado Allergy and Asthma, Broomfield; Poudre Valley Hospital, Fort Collins; Denver Health; Evans Army Community Hospital, Fort Carson; Family Care Southwest, Littleton; Spanish Peaks Regional Health Care, Walsenburg;

CT: Yale Dermatology, New Haven (Yay!  Alma Mater! - Dr. Amy); Hand Cosmetic Surgeon, Waterbury; Village Pediatrics, Westport;

DE: AI Dupont Hospital for Children; Nemours;

FL: All Children's, St. Petersburg; Baptist Health South Florida, Miami, Tallahassee Memorial - "Buzzy has been a wonderful asset to our pediatric patients.  We have even had some children say that they couldn't even feel the insertion of their i.v.!  I don't know what we would do without it!" Jennifer F, Child Life; Martin Memorial Health, Stuart; Shands Children's Hospital, Gainesville; St. Joseph's Childrens, Largo; Allergy Associates, St. Petersburg; Sirven and Associates Allergy and Asthma, Miami;  Foot and Ankle Associates, Kissimee; LRMC Pediatrics, Lakeland; Ocala Pediatrics, Ocala; Progressive Pediatrics Jacksonville; University of SF Medical Clinic, Tampa;

GA: Pediatric Associates, Warner Robbins; Grady Hospital; Gwinnett Hospital; Children's Healthcare of Atlanta: "I don't have time to wait for cream - Buzzy works right away" - Hope; Sunshine Pediatrics, Watkinsville;  Bulloch Pediatrics, Statesboro; Newton Medical Center, Covington; Chatham Skin and Cancer, Savannah; The Pediatric Place, Alpharetta; Pediatrics and Genetic, Alpharetta; Atlanta Integrative Medicine, Roswell;

IA:  University of Iowa; The Finley Hospital; Medical Associates Clinic, Dubuque; Grundy County Memorial; Mercy Medical Center, Cedar Rapids; St. Lukes Hospital, Centerpoint; Methodist Physician's Clinic, Coucil Bluffs;  Mercy Medical Center, Mason City; Pella Regional Health;

ID:  Kootenai Medical Center, Coeur de Alene; St. Lukes Magic Valley Regional Medical Center, Twin Falls;

IL: Children's Memorial, Chilcago; CGH Medical Center, Sterling; Gottlieb Memorial Hospital, Melrose Park; Central Dupage Hospital, Winfield; Morrison Community Hospital; Advocate Bromenn Medical Center, Farmer's City; Provina St. Josephs, Elgin;

IN:  Bloomington Hospital; Hemophilia of Indiana, Carmel; Pediatric Rheumatology, Freeport; Pediatric Unit, Lafayette; Emergency Care, Lafayette; Peds and Teens, Muncie; Indiana University Health, Indianapolis; Community Hospital North, Indianapolis, McLean County Health, Bloomington; Franciscan St. Elizabeth, Lafayette; Community Hospital South, Indianapolis; Columbus Regional Hospital; Peyton Manning Childrens, Indianapolis; Floyd Memorial Hospital and Health, New Albany; Indiana University Medical Center, Indianapolis; Ball Memorial Hospital, Muncie;

KS: Shaw Nee Mission Medical; Kansas City Allergy and Asthma, Overland Park; The Children's Mercy, Overland Park;

KY: University of Kentucky; Regional Medical Center, Madisonville; Kentucky Children's Medical, Shepherdsville; St. Josephs, Berea [Dr. Amy's grandparents met going to college here!]

LA: Children's Hospital, Metairie; Our Lady of the Lake, Baton Rouge; Lafayette General Medical; Tammany Parish Hospital, Covington; ark-la-tex Pediatric Research, Bossier City;

MA: Children's Hospital, Boston

MD: Johns Hopkins; Kennedy Krieger, Baltimore; Westat, Rockville;  Allergy and Asthma, Rockville; Westat, Gaithersberg; National Center for Health, Hyattsville; University of Maryland Medical Center, Baltimore; University of MD Hospital for Children, Baltimore;

ME:  Mount Desert Island Hospital, Bar Harbor

MI: William Beaumont Hospital, Troy; Mercy Hospital, Cadillac; District Health White Cloud; Seneca Medical, Kalamazoo;  University of Michigan, Ann Arbor; Medical Center Pediatrics, Commerce Township; Marquette General; Bronson Methodist, Kalamazoo; War Memorial Hospital, Sault Saint Marie; Northern Michican Supply, Travers City; Northern Michigan Hospital, Petoskey; Family Health PC, Riverview; Spectrum Health Reed City Hospital;

MN: Mayo Clinic, Rochester; Acute Care Laboratory, Minneapolis; Fairview Lakes Medical Center, Minneapolis; Douglas County Hospital, Alexandria; Fairview Ridges Hospital, Burnsville; Children's Hospitals and Clinics, Minneapolis; Hendricks Hospital; 

          Crutchfield Dermatology in Egan!  Check out their Buzzy Press Release!

MO: Children's Mercy, Kansas City "...able to insert the IV needle without so much as a wince!"; Southwest Baptist Hospital, Springfield; Marquette General Hospital; Freeman Children's Clinic, Joplin; Bates County Memorial, Butler; Cockerell and McIntosh Pediatrics, Blue Springs; Cox Health Systems, Springfield; Moberly Pediatrics, Columbia;

NC: WakeMed, Raleigh; Southlake Pediatrics, Huntersville; Grove Medical, Mount Ulla; Caromont Health, Gastonia; Wake Family Medicine, Cary; HP Family Practice, High Point; Catawaba Valley Medical, Hickory; WakeMed Cary Hospital; UNC Hospitals, Chapel Hill;

NE: Children's Hospital, Omaha; Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha; Allergy Asthma and Science, Omaha; Greensboro Medical;

ND: Meritcare, Fargo ND; Medcenter 1; Sanford Health, Fargo;

NH: Lakes Region General Hospital, Laconia; St. Joseph, Nashua; Dartmouth-Hitchcock, Lebabon (Ooh!  I lived in West Leb when I went to undergrad at Dartmouth! -Dr. Amy]l; Mid-state Health, Plymouth;

NJ: Shore Memorial; St. Joseph's Patterson; Hackensack University; Medical Center at Princeton; Children's Specialized, Mountainside; Universal Pediatrics, East Orange; Cooper University, Camden; Atlantic Health, Morristown; Mount Sinai School of Medicine, Fairlawn;

NM: University Hospital, Albuquerque

NV: Renown Medical Center; Carson Valley Medical Center, Gardenville;

NY: Albany Medical Center; Glens Falls Hospital; SUNY Health Science Center Syracuse; Mt. Sinai Kravis Children's Hospital, New York; Rochester General; Maimonides Medical Center, Brooklyn; University of Rochester; Golisano Children's Hospital, Rochester;

"We service over 75,000 children each year at Golisano Children’s Hospital throughout western New York.  We have been amazed by the response of Buzzy. We have departments and individual families asking how to purchase them.  Buzzy was endorsed by our pediatric pain committee as an essential non-pharmalogical pain intervention.  We now have Buzzy in each pediatric department within our 750 bed university medical center.   Buzzy has certainly made its impact in our delivery of care and we are excited that so many healthcare professionals are wanting to use it."  Wendy Lane, MS, CCLS

Wild Child Pediatrics, Amityville; Pediatrics at Schenectady; North Shore Allergy and Asthma, New Hyde Park; Stonybrook University; Capital Care Medical Group; Hudson Heights Pediatrics, New York; FF Thompson Hospital, Canandaigua; Rome Memorial Hospital, Rome; Allergy and ASthma, West Nyack; ENT and Allergy Associates, Tarrytown; Hospice Buffalo, Cheektowaga; Columbia University; St. Elizabeth Medical, Utica; St. Josehp's Hospital Syracuse; Catskill Regional Medical, Harris; NYU Medical Center, New York; Women and Childrens, Buffalo;

OH: Licking Memorial, Newark; Children's Hospital of Akron;

OK:  Milestone Pediatric Care, Tulsa; St. Francis Health System, Tulsa; Warren Clinic, Owasso; Grady Memorial Hosptital, Chickasha;

OR: The Hemophilia Center, Portland; Oregon Health and Sciences, Portland; Carrington College, Portland; Legacy Health, Portland; Southern Coos Hospital, Bandon; SOCP Health Department, Keizer; Columbia Memorial Hospital, Astoria;

PA: Janet Weis Children's Hospital, Danville, PA;  Children's Hosptial of Philadelphia (Randomized Controlled trial in progress); UPMC Children's Hospital, Pittsburgh;  St. Christopher's Hospital; Chambersburg Hospital; Pediatric Specialty Care, Bethlehem; Milton S. Hershey Medical, Hershey; School of Phlebotomy, Bloomsburg; Geisinger Systems Services, Danville; Janet Weis Children's Hospital, Danville; Endless Mountains Health Systems, Montrose; Northeastern Laboratory Medicine, Hazelton; College of Medicine, Hershey;

Sydney Children's Hospital; Randwick, Australia; Barwon Health, Geelong; Children's Hospital at Westmeade; Smithton District Hospital, Tasmania;

Canada:

Willow Cree, Duck Lake;  Valemont Health Unit;  Windsor Essex County Hospital, RUH Acute Care Pediatrics, Saskatoon; Montreal Children's Hospital; Viha-Nanaimo Regional; Centre for Community Child, Vancouver; Children's Hospital of East Ottowa; Fraiser East/Agassiz Health, Agassiz BC; BC Children's Hospital, Vancouver; Alberta Children's Hospital;

France:   Hopital des enfents, Les Thioleyres

Turkey: Elab, Istanbul;

UK:  Great Ormond Hospital; North Tees Hospital, Stockton-on-Tees

University of Iowa: I'm the supervisor of an outpatient laboratory in Iowa who performs a lot of blood draws on children. Buzzy has been very effective for us since he purchased him 2 months ago. We have used them on children ranging in age from 3-12. Each child seems to be less anxious of the procedure when Buzzy is used. It's a great product. -Meighan

UVA hospitals: “Buzzy” pain management device is being explored for use as a distraction technique for injections, venipuncture and IV cannulation - 2010 MidYear report

And... 

Contact us for support from an emergency nurse or other clinicians who have agreed to help or answer questions!  You can  also download policies and support material here.  Email us if you need a powerpoint with sample clinic guidelines.

Vendor Account Information

To set up a vendor account, here is our W-9 and here is the product list with prices.

This nice write up was included in the Children's Mercy Hospitals newsletter:

A patient gets a little help from "Buzzy" while getting an IV start for an infusion treatment