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IDSteward.
All seven CMS stewardship requirements. One platform.

IDSteward is the web-based stewardship platform built to satisfy the CMS mandate for skilled nursing and long-term care — saving staff time, reducing pharmacy spend, and generating survey-ready reports on demand. Now with native PointClickCare integration and new sepsis-detection modules.

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10+
Facilities served
654
Antibiotic days saved
$5K+
In pharmacy savings
4.6%
Reduction in antibiotic use
CDC Core Elements
Seven requirements. One workflow. Survey-ready in minutes, not weeks.
IDSA IDea Incubator 2024 · Winner
See it in motion

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The problem

The mandate is not optional.

Since 2017, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services has required every skilled nursing facility to operate an antibiotic stewardship program. Surveyors cite under F-tag 881. Antimicrobial resistance keeps climbing. C. difficile rates remain stubbornly high.

And yet — most LTPAC facilities still track antibiotic use in spreadsheets, paper logs, or memory. The seven CDC Core Elements get partially documented, scattered across binders, and assembled in a panic the week before a survey.

"Stewardship doesn't fail in LTPAC because the rules are unclear. It fails because the documentation lives nowhere."

IDSteward was built to fix exactly this. One platform. Seven Core Elements. Survey-ready reports on demand.

The platform

Seven Core Elements. One workflow.

IDSteward maps every CDC Core Element of Antibiotic Stewardship for Nursing Homes to a specific platform feature — so compliance isn't a binder you assemble, it's a button you click.

i.

Leadership Commitment

Facility-level stewardship policy templates, leadership sign-off workflows, and version-controlled documentation.

ii.

Accountability

Named stewardship leads, attestation tracking, and audit trails for every prescribing decision in the platform.

iii.

Drug Expertise

Evidence-based stewardship recommendations delivered in real time as antibiotic orders are entered.

iv.

Action

Structured checklists for indication, McGeer Criteria, duration, and route — built into every prescribing event.

v.

Tracking

Days of therapy, antibiotic starts, and indication trends — captured at the resident, facility, and chain level.

vi.

Reporting

One-click survey-ready reports. Quarterly antibiogram summaries. Trend dashboards for medical directors and DONs.

vii.

Education

Staff-facing education modules covering McGeer Criteria, asymptomatic bacteriuria, C. difficile prevention, and resistance trends — assignable, trackable, completion-documented.

Editions

Three editions. One platform.

Start with compliance. Add integration when you're ready. Add detection when you want safety as well as savings.

Standard

IDSteward

Compliance, met.

  • All seven CDC Core Elements
  • Stewardship workflow & checklists
  • One-click survey-ready reports
  • Antibiogram & trend dashboards
  • Staff education modules
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Pro

IDSteward Pro

Compliance + integration.

  • Everything in Standard
  • Native PointClickCare API integration
  • Auto-imported orders, vitals, labs
  • Zero duplicate documentation
  • Single source of truth for stewardship leads
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In Development
Pro Plus

IDSteward Pro+

Compliance + integration + safety.

  • Everything in Pro
  • Sepsis-detection modules
  • Eight-parameter clinical surveillance
  • Early clinical decline alerts
  • 21st Century Cures Act CDS positioning
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Steve Williams, MD — Founder of IDVantage Health
The founder

Built by an ID physician — not a vendor.

IDSteward was created by Steve Williams, MD — a practicing infectious disease physician who watched, year after year, as LTPAC facilities tried to meet CMS stewardship requirements with tools designed for hospitals or built by developers who had never seen a survey.

Every algorithm, every checklist, every report template in IDSteward was drafted clinically before it was engineered. The science comes first. The software follows.

Role
President & CEO
Specialty
Infectious Disease
Recognition
IDSA IDea Incubator 2024

The team behind it.

Engineering & Product
Arvind Handuu, Chief Technology Officer of IDSteward
Arvind Handuu
Chief Technology Officer
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Shubhra Shrivastava, Product Manager of IDSteward
Shubhra Shrivastava
Product Manager
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The IDSA presentation.

IDea Incubator 2024 · Winner
Resources

From the stewardship desk.

Plain-language reference material for DONs, medical directors, and stewardship leads.

Reference · Jan 2025

The McGeer Criteria: A Valuable Tool in Antimicrobial Stewardship

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Evidence · Dec 2024

How Stewardship Programs Decrease C. difficile Rates

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Foundations · Nov 2024

The Seven Core Elements: A Path to Responsible Antibiotic Use

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See it in your facility.

A 30-minute demo walks you through stewardship workflow, the new sepsis modules, and the PointClickCare handshake — using your facility's prescribing patterns as the example.

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