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Confused about Care Manager Technology?

June 2, 2022

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Beware of Paper

Still function on paper?

 

What care management database should you use? Some care managers still function on paper instead of using a care management database. That is a bad business decision. You need to give clients gold standard service to retain them . When you make the right choice of what database to use you will arm your care managers with the most user-friendly fully loaded client database making that gold standard concierge care so much easier to deliver. This gives your care management or homecare agency a more profitable bottom line in running a business. So spending money on a client database makes stock-photo-2811391-three-business-persons-working-with-laptop-in-sunny-office.jpg more money.

What Care Management databases are the ALCA Choices?

What care management database should you use? Some care managers still function on paper instead of using a care management database. That is a bad business decision. You make 30% more money by ditching paper and using a care management database, You need to give clients gold standard service to retain them. When you make the right choice of what database to use you will arm your care managers with the most user-friendly fully loaded client database making that gold standard concierge care so much easier to deliver. This gives your care management or homecare agency a more profitable bottom line in running a business. So spending money on a client database makes more money. Jewel Code has been around for many years.

More recent additions of databases that make information flow

Databases makes information flow.

Caretree and ihealthhome  My Junna are the newest product. Care managers and ALCA managers are fans of  Clear Care, which offers staffing if you also have private duty home care but is not user-friendly for geriatric care managers.  If you are a geriatric or aging life care manager or a private duty home care agency doing geriatric care management- which  GCM Software should you use and why. Find what you need in your client database and check out each product to see if it has what you want.

 

 

What  Should a GCM DatabaseDo For You?

Here is a list of what a care management database should do for you

 

  • database makes information flow
  • Track all client information
  • Create and update a care plan
  • Create a client activity log
  • Tracks billable hours
  • Document client activities
  • Interface with a calendar for client and care manager appointments
  • Track client referrals
  • Track guardianship information
  • Track medications
  • Reconcile medications
  • Create a client face sheet with all demographics
  • Create a caring community
  • Turn phone calls in casenotes&billing
  • Upload documents and pictures
  • Do real-time updates
  • Be HIPPA compliant
  • Store historical client records
  • Create reports and export data
  • Create medication and text message reminders
  • Add custom patient field
  • digitalize patient paper records
  • go paperless
  • interface with care providers in the home via phone
  • Increase billing by making it easy to bill in the field
  • Patient portal
  • Have a calendar
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10 Reasons to Ditch Paper and Reap the Advantages of a Database

May 31, 2022

 


GCM ‘s Using Paper Bad Business Decision

What are the advantages of a database for care managers?Some care managers still function on paper instead of using a care management database. That is a bad business decision. A paper record is easily exposed, letting anyone see it, transcribe details, make a copy or even scan or fax the information to a third party. In contrast, electronic records 0r a database can be protected with robust encryption methods to keep crucial patient information secure from prying eyes. Keeping your patients’ records secure involves much more than controlling access to confidential information. You also need to make sure that the data will be available under worst-case scenarios.

 

The Advantages of a database- easy to give clients gold standard service to make more money.

The advantage of a database to care managers, is you retain clients by arming your care management staff with the most user-friendly fully loaded client database. This makes their gold standard concierge care so much easier to deliver. This gives your business a more profitable bottom line in running your business. So spending money on a client database makes you more money and saves you time while making that money.

What are the advantages of a database for care managers?

1. Using a database rather than paper will increase your revenue by 30%. You enter case notes and billing in real-time rather than hours later when you get back to the office when you forget the exact billing time.

2. Improves the quality of care… for your client by being able to quickly document and used the saved time for working with your client.

3. Speed and Efficiency. ..when a team member needs to share client information with other team members, it should be easy and a database makes this sharing fast

4. Improves communication… between you as a care manager and other healthcare professionals you work with within the community

5. Saves time and money… getting rid of the extra work and time of double-entry,

6. Legibility and Accuracy. .. enhancing the readability, availability, and easy accessibility of information

7. Comply with courts …if your notes are requested by the courts they are readable and organized  as geriatric care managers work with many dysfunctional families where there is often  fiscal or physical abuse  ending in the courtroom

8. Protect the environment … by not generating tons of paper which is critical now with climate change

9. More Space…  Computerizing a paper system can create additional space, as there is no longer a need to store a large volume of paper records or files. …

10. Reduces cost… by not paying for storage space to keep 7 years of client information in written form for IRS requirements

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Presented by Cathy Cress MSW – Handbook of Geriatric Care Management

We will Cover

advantages of a database

What you need in a website

  • Why you need content marketing
  • How to shoot videos for your agency
  • interviews with CEO’s major care management software platforms
  • What are easy-to-use social media sites
  • How to shoot videos for your agency
  • Critical software programs that make care management information flow
  • What you need in a website
  • Why you need content marketing
  • with 1-1 interviews with CEOs of major care management software platforms
  •  
  • interview with Natasha Beauchamp on content marketing  forALCA members

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The 2 Deadliest US Sites of COVID-19 Nursing Homes & Prisons

May 2, 2020

PRISON INMATES AND NURSING HOME PATIENTS NOT  6FT APART – 6 FEET UNDER

70% of inmates in federal prisons have COVID-19.  In Kansas, the Lansing Correctional Facility had a riot of inmates over COVID-19 lack of care or protection  It took the rebellion to get the coronavirus testing PPE and care. The  Bureau of Prisons in Kansas confirmed finally that 79 staff have coronavirus and 88 prisons and prisoners dead.   

Older residents in nursing homes cannot rebel like prisoners. Many can’t even walk. The Atlantic Magazine just published an article, We are Killing Elders Now. The writer states “In at least six states, these fatalities account for half of all COVID-19 deaths, and according to the World Health Organization, half of all coronavirus fatalities in Europe have been traced to nursing homes too. Some of this mortality is linked to long-term-care facilities that are shoddily run or that violate health standards. But most of them are doing the best they can with what they have. And they don’t have much”.

KAISER FOUNDATION NURSING HOME STAFFING AND USE OF PPE NOT REQUIRED IN MOST STATES

Kaiser reports -Staff Screening. It is more common for states to recommend rather than require daily screening of staff for illness in NFs (24 states recommend, 16 states + DC require)

Use of PPE. More states recommend (23 states) than require (7 states + DC) staff to use PPE

 Two States that require testing for coronavirus of ALL  residents of nursing homes are  Maryland where 556 have died as of the Washington Post article. and Tennessee 

THE FEDS HAVE NO CMS FEDERAL GUIDELINES OR REPORTING

We have no federal guidelines for safety testing according to an article by the Kaiser Foundation

It is now estimated that 16,000 deaths have occurred in nursing homes and that is without the federal government revealing any numbers and not making available any testing. But the numbers are probably huge- if we could just do testing. 

CMS announced it would have a meeting of a “panel” of experts “ sometime at the end of May”. After probably 20,000 older people died and the feds did nothing this shows their sense of urgency about this pandemic’s national “elder cleansing”.

WHAT CONNECTS PRISONS AND NURSING HOMES – CONCENTRATION CAMPS

So, what is the connection between the viral spread of COVID-19 in nursing homes and prisons- 6 feet ? Prisoners and residents, in nursing homes, and prisons cannot social distance. Jails and prisons have human beings crammed together with no choice. Nursing homes have 2 beds or if you are on Medicaid three to a room. Neither group has a choice to social distance. They are ” concentrated” as in concentration camps or death camps.

Do SOMETHING – HELP NURSING HOMES PREVENT MORE CARNAGE

So, as someone who has spent her career in aging, I am calling out to everyone, especially professional in aging – do something. Since the feds appear to be doing little- call your congressman, write a letter to the editor.

BE KIND LIKE RACHEL MADDOW REPORTS LA JEWISH HOME LA WAS

Rachel Maddow suggests calling your local nursing homes and see what they need. Be kind like the LA Jewish Home was to a smaller nursing home LA Brier Oaks. They wanted to test their residents and had no tests and the larger LA Jewish Home had tests and shared them with the smaller as a good neighbor. What they found was ravaging but it also showed caring and generosity. Care and be generous and show the helpless elders in nursing homes in your town you are opposed to -nursing home being prisons or concentration camps.

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What Databases Do You Need to Start a GCM Business?

October 10, 2019

Beware of Paper

Some care managers still function on paper instead of using a care management database. That is a bad business decision. You need to give clients gold standard service to retain them and arming your care managers with the most user-friendly fully loaded client database makes their concierge care so much easier to deliver. This gives your business a more profitable bottom line in running a business. So spending money on a client database makes stock-photo-2811391-three-business-persons-working-with-laptop-in-sunny-office.jpg more  money

What are the ALCA Choices for a GCM  Database?

There are only five significant aging life or geriatric care management client databases.  So the choices for client software are slim. Jewel Code and Care Manager Pro more have been around for many years. More recent additions are Care Tree and ihealthhome  My Junna is the newest product. Care managers and ALCA managers are fans of  Clear Care, which offers staffing if you also have private duty home care. However, it is not really as user-friendly for most care management needs. If you are a geriatric or aging life care manager or a private duty home care agency doing geriatric care management- which one should you use and why. Find what you need in your client database and check out each product to see if it has what you want.

What  Should a GCM DatabaseDo For You?

Here is a list of what a care management database should do for you

 

  • Track all client information
  • Create and update a care plan
  • Create a client activity log
  • Tracks billable hours
  • Document client activities
  • Interface with a calendar for client and care manager appointments
  • Track client referrals
  • Track guardianship informatio

  • Track medications
  • Reconcile medications                                                                
  • Create a client face sheet with all demographics
  • Create a care community
  • Upload document and pictures
  • Do real-time updates
  • Be HIPPA compliant
  • Store historical client records
  • Create reports and export data
  • Create medication and text message reminders
  • Add custom patient field
  • digitalize patient paper records
  • go paperless
  • interface with care providers in the home via phone
  • Increase billing by making it easy to bill in the field
  • Patient portal
  • Have a calendar

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