Two North Carolina Senior Housing Communities Leverage Technology to Improve Safety and Satisfaction
February 12, 2007
"Status Solutions has been a great partner. We feel like we can call them day or night if there is any type of problem. They truly care about our residents, and the success of our community."
Charlottesville, Va., February 12, 2007 - Status Solutions, provider of the Situational Awareness and Response Assistant (SARA), announces the recent purchase of their enabling technology solution by two senior housing communities in North Carolina. By utilizing SARA these communities can improve their overall safety and resident satisfaction by increasing awareness of certain events and activities.
SARA is an automated alerting system which through a simple to use text to speech engine can send voice and text alerts to in-building pagers, email and telephones, as well as to cell phones, home phones and external email. This allows both staff and residents to be notified of important events at any time, any place. Staff members can quickly address safety and security concerns or environmental problems before they turn into emergencies.
Many assisted living, independent living and senior nursing facilities have benefited from installing SARA. While the benefits from the system are similar, the reason for choosing this flexible type of technology varies based upon the individual community's needs.
Springmoor Life Care Retirement Community in Raleigh, N.C. selected SARA to extend mobile safety coverage to their residents while leveraging their current infrastructure. SARA will integrate to various systems, such as their fire safety system, to improve alerting. Springmoor's Executive Director Kyle Dilday comments, "We chose Status Solutions because SARA was the only system we could find that would allow us to take our environment wireless in phases, while still utilizing our existing hardware, for example pull cords. After implementing the alerting capabilities of the system we look forward to making use of some of SARA's additional features like the automated voice reminders."
Penick Village in Southern Pines, N.C. chose to partner with Status Solutions and to implement SARA in order to provide more freedom to their residents throughout the Healthcare facility, Assisted Living community and Independent Living apartments. Jeff Hutchins, Penick Village's Executive Director, states, "After implementing SARA, we are able to provide better opportunities to our residents, for example through the use of wireless pendants that enable better coverage and service throughout the community." Regarding the quality of service Status Solutions has provided Penick Village during and after the implementation of the system, Hutchins comments, "Status Solutions has been a great partner. We feel like we can call them day or night if there is any type of problem. They truly care about our residents, and the success of our community."
Both communities plan to utilize SARA's automated voice reminder capability that allows alerts for community events, scheduled activities, bus departure and medicine reminders to be scheduled and automatically sent via phone to designated residents and / or staff members.
There are also plans to leverage the motion based check-in component of SARA that allows for an email to be sent to designated staff members when sensors in the specified residents' rooms detect movement before 1:00PM each day. If staff members do not receive the "check-in" message by the pre-determined time, then they know they should go to the resident's room to see if they need assistance.
About Status Solutions:
Status Solutions is the leading provider of innovative situational awareness solutions. Facilities can leverage SARA (the Situational Awareness and Response Assistant), an automated alerting system, CATIE (Communication and Access to Information Everywhere) an interactive touch-screen enabled kiosk, and MIMI (Motion into Meaningful Information) a health monitoring system, to be made aware of any event.
With a combination of skills in computer telephony integration, as well as practical experience in the delivery of monitoring and notification tools, Status Solutions is a focused growing company, with customer satisfaction as their top priority.
Our mission is to keep people informed. With our innovative alerting solutions delivered by SARA, you can be aware of any situation occurring in your facility. Because RIGHT NOW matters most.
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For additional information or a sample copy, Contact:
Amy Jeffs
Status Solutions
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