Silver Ridge And Silver Hills Healthcare Centers First In Las Vegas To Deploy AccuNurse Voice Technology For Outcomes-Based Care
Vocollect Healthcare Systems, Inc. announces that Silver Ridge Healthcare Center and Silver Hills Healthcare Center, both based in Las Vegas, Nevada, and part of Covenant Care family of facilities, has deployed AccuNurse voice technology in their skilled nursing and rehabilitation facilities. The implementations mark a first in the Las Vegas region for facilities to deploy voice for the care of their residents and to prepare for 2014 reform in the continuing care continuum of the healthcare industry.
Covenant Care expects the investment in voice to take care to new levels of performance by enabling more proactive care, increasing productivity of its direct care team and providing more time for direct resident care. By giving caregivers the ability to access resident care needs on demand, simply by talking, enhance care team collaboration with Silent Paging and respond faster to resident needs, both Silver Ridge and Silver Hills Health Care Centers will achieve numerous performance and reimbursement gains, including enabling higher levels of staff efficiency and satisfaction while increasing quality, eliminating paperwork, and achieving compliance.
According to Ron Jolley, Director of Nursing with Silver Ridge Health Care Center, the decision to implement AccuNurse in Las Vegas was far from a gamble. "AccuNurse is doing a tremendous amount in the industry to drive decision-support data in real time so health trends can be identified and changes can be made while the patient is in the facility," he said. "Voice will also provide our clinical team with a very easy and accurate way to document care outcomes for our residents. We're proud to be the first in Vegas to embrace AccuNurse, joining ranks with the most forward-operating facilities nationally to deploy this powerful solution for the benefit of our team and residents."
AccuNurse voice-assisted care enables the following processes: real-time access to information and other staff; the elimination of paper-based printouts for managing care needs and documentation; the ability for caregivers to make decisions more accurately and quickly; and, the ability for the care team to multi-task while documenting care, thereby improving productivity and directing more time back to residents.
According to Mary Evans, COO of Covenant Care, "We are naturally resistant to giving up our current paperwork systems and this shift requires a psychological change. In using AccuNurse, we've realized it is effectively changing the culture within our facilities, going well beyond ADL data capture and facilitating a new mindset toward real-time data and having live remote access to that data. This is crucial as we continue to move toward the paperless requirements of 2014."
According to Maureen Ladouceur, vice president of clinical solutions at Vocollect Healthcare Systems, Inc., "Simply by embracing voice, the most advanced care technology available today, Silver Ridge and Silver Hills Health Care Centers now set the standard for outcomes-driven care in its region. The facilities will benefit from real-time communication, documentation and clinical solutions expertise from AccuNurse, enabling them to better compete while also being prepared early on for the data-driven environment that healthcare reform will surely bring."
About AccuNurse
AccuNurse provides sound business guidance and data-driven clinical outcomes to long-term care's leading facilities. Through its CliniFusion model, which couples the depth and knowledge of senior clinical advisors with the power of voice technology, the company has taken a leadership role in preparing long-term care for 2014 reform, streamlining the work of the caregiver, and making substantial and lasting improvements to the performance of their facilities. This ‘fused' approach to achieving clinical outcomes is what empowers AccuNurse to address problems no one else can. AccuNurse is part of Vocollect, Inc., the global leader in delivering voice technology to mobile workers on six continents. For more information, visit www.accunurse.com.
SOURCE: Vocollect Healthcare Systems, Inc.