Services — Northern Lights Medical

Placement services

What we place

PICC Lines

Power PICC and Triple Lumen Power PICC placement for infusion therapy, long-course antibiotics, chemotherapy, TPN, and frequent blood draws. Power-injectable for contrast studies.

Midline Catheters

Midline placement for therapies of intermediate duration — preserving peripheral vessels and avoiding unnecessary central access when a midline is the right call.

Difficult Access

Ultrasound-guided placement for the patients your floor nurses dread sticking — fragile vessels, edema, history of multiple failed attempts. Published literature puts peripheral IV failure at 35–50% even in skilled hands; this is where a specialist changes the math.

The right line, not just a line

Device selection follows appropriateness frameworks (MAGIC, Ann Intern Med): therapies under roughly five days that are peripherally compatible don't need a PICC, and we'll say so. Line-necessity discipline protects patients, preserves vessels, and keeps your CLABSI denominators honest.

What we deliberately don't do

No wound care, no infusion administration, no general staffing services, no scope creep. Declining adjacent work is part of why the placement record looks the way it does. One specialty, all day, every day.

How an insertion works

From order to confirmed line.

1

Your team places the order

A provider orders the line; our inserter is dispatched to the bedside. After-hours, weekend, and holiday requests are part of the service, not an exception to it.

2

Bedside insertion

Ultrasound-guided placement under maximal sterile barrier precautions, using supplies we bring. The patient never leaves the unit.

3

Imaging confirmation

Tip position is confirmed by X-ray before the line is released for use, and the placement is documented in full. The line is ready when we say it's ready.

The operating model

Built to be easy to say yes to.

✓Vendor-provided supply chain — kits, catheters, ultrasound, and consumables are ours. Your facility adds no inventory and no capital equipment.

✓Per-procedure billing, net-30 — one line item per procedure. No retainer, no minimum volume, no platform fee.

✓Coverage models that flex — full-service vascular access, weekend/after-hours relief, or overflow support behind an in-house team.

✓Fast credentialing — experienced clinicians with clean files and a practiced credentialing process. Days to first placement, not quarters.

✓Complete documentation — every placement recorded with technique, attempts, catheter details and lot, imaging-confirmation result, and complications; quarterly quality reports formatted for your committee.

Why this matters now

The staffing math behind outsourced vascular access.

Hospitals already outsource imaging, dialysis, and emergency staffing. Vascular access is the same logic — applied to a procedure where specialist volume visibly drives outcomes.

~$60,000

Average cost to replace one departing staff RN, per NSI's national retention report — before counting the ~83 days it takes to recruit an experienced replacement. A vascular access FTE is a recurring bet on that market.

2.5 million+

PICC insertions performed in U.S. acute care every year — and demand keeps growing with outpatient antibiotic therapy, oncology, and an aging population. The need is structural, not cyclical.

$46,000+

Published average cost of a single central line–associated bloodstream infection (AHRQ-cited research) — and CLABSI performance feeds the CMS penalty programs. Insertion discipline is financial discipline.

One specialty, done completely.