10 Reasons to Get Rid of Paper & Buy a Geriatric Care Management Database

September 6, 2021

GCM ‘s Using Paper Bad Business Decision

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 arm your care man

agers 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 you more money

What are the advantages?

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 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 you 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 in the community

5.Saves time and money… getting rid 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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August 11, 2021

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 . Arming your care managers with the most user-friendly fully loaded client database makes that 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.

What are the ALCA Choices for a GCM Database?

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 exact billing time.There are only five significant aging life or geriatric care management client databases. So the choices for client software are slim. Jewel Code has 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 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

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 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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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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