FACT: Based on a sample of 300 senior living communities, 30 percent of the overall hands-on care delivered to a resident in a senior living community is rendered by a Home Health Provider, Third-party Private Caregivers, Hospice Providers, etc.
We’ve all heard the phrase, “It’s not personal, it’s just business,” but we also know that it’s never just business when caring for residents in senior living communities — especially when someone else’s personnel or a private duty caregiver is providing care, hands-on, with residents in your community. From safety to care coordination, we as operators need to know more about the individuals providing care and their activity in our communities.
The Accushield Visitor Management System, a touchscreen, badge-printing kiosk that replaces the antiquated sign-in logs at the entrance to senior living communities, also provides The Accushield Analytics Monitor. The Analytics Monitor allows you to take control of third-party caregiver activity within your community, accessing it in detail with just a few mouse clicks. The challenge we face – how do we collect, manage, sort, and report on third-party caregiver data and maintain accurate resident care plans – is solved with a single system that allows you to marry third-party caregiver data with individualized, resident-oriented metrics to produce invaluable resident and community insights. How many residents are under Hospice order? Did a Home Health provider show up to care for a resident? With whom are private caregivers spending their time? All of this information and so much more is available in a system that is easy to use and available via computer, smartphone, or tablet.
In addition to the overall third-party caregiver analytics for the community as a whole, the Accushield System also provides a personalized dashboard for each resident. The dashboard not only includes a real-time, comprehensive summary of all third-party caregiver activity for each resident but also includes the number of non-healthcare individuals, normally family and friends, who visit the resident. By including family, friends, and third-party care providers, Accushield’s data gives a comprehensive view of the level of care and attention each resident receives – including the Love Meter ™, a tool that stack ranks residents from the least-visited to the most-visited. Isolation and depression go hand-in-hand, so understanding who the least visited residents are can improve overall community health and prevent move-outs from unhappy residents.
Replace your antiquated paper sign-in books with the Accushield visitor management system and enjoy the benefits that easy access to visitor activity data can provide for you, your staff, and your residents. Call Accushield today for a demo.
