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What would you do with 15 extra hours every day? "Improve care" says the team at The Lodge at Mills River, one of Sanstone Health's premiere buildings in North Carolina.  "Vitals are vital--they are the primary indicators of resident health.  Changes in those vitals are the first step in triggering care plan interventions" remark...

  "In our fast-paced TCU, we are admitting higher acuity patients every day—60 admissions a month with a 14 day average stay--- so vitals are vital-- the very first task upon admission. Paying attention to the changes in those vitals triggers the care plan interventions that keep our patients health intact," remarks Terri Ringhofer, ...

“Vitals are vital—and the first indicator of the health of our residents,” remarks Faina Kaganov, RN, Chief Clinical Officer of The Allure Group in New York City.“In keeping with our corporate mission to provide cutting edge technology and treatments that speed recovery, we chose to deploy best-in-breed Constant Care T...

Early Warnings = Early Intervention = Readmission Prevention Back in 2014—when most skilled nursing buildings were still capturing vitals manually and less than 50% had an EMR system, Touchstone Communities’ Heights of Huebner,  San Antonio, became the LTPAC industry’s first adopter of PointClickCare’s newly-launched...

Was it biting off more than they could chew—or a really smart, sweeping culture change designed to improve resident care and drive efficiency to the bottom line?   Judging from their incredible adoption success, Maple Lawn Medical Care (Coldwater MI) made the right decisions to implement a new EHR system (PointClickCare) and, at ...

Customers are asking for more efficient, mistake-proof ways to capture and document vitals--Constant Care Technology delivers that and so much more--powerful readmission prevention alerting features.  Learn more:  Constant Care Solution Video

Yes, we heard you when you asked for an easy-to-use and right-priced automated vitals monitor that "talks" to your EHR.    We heard you when you asked for a ruggedized "nurse on a stick" that could survive in a skilled nursing building and included a holder for disinfecting wipes. We heard you when you ask...

SMART*Technology's predictive analytics delivers alerts of those subtle changes in condition that indicate incipient patient health crisis. SMART* technology scrubs the daily measurements sent from CareConnection's vitals integration to the SNF's EMR system, ferreting out those combinations of markers that indicate the potential for infection, s...

How do I Spot Potential Health Issues in My Skilled Nursing Building Residents? “How do I spot potential health issues in my residents—and intervene quickly to adjust medications to prevent unnecessary hospital readmission? With SMART* Alerts from CareConnection,” remarks Gwen Leger, APRN for a Louisiana skilled nursing build...

Want to know more about CareConnection? Our weekly webinars are a great introduction to how our equipment, software and tablets all work together to deliver wireless, immediate and error-free vitals and weights from bedside to your EMR.  Tune in Thursdays in Fall, 2016 at 3:30 PM Eastern Time Dates:  October 13 and 27, Novemb...