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RTLS for Long-Term Care
As the population ages and more people are in need of long term care, facilities must be prepared to meet this growing demand
while maintaining high standards of care. Momentum’s Real-Time Location System (RTLS) puts you in touch with your resources the
moment you need them. Through the use of location hardware technologies, residents are granted the independence to request
staff assistance throughout the entire facility. Residents and staff wear a small, lightweight badge and equipment is affixed with an
asset tag. These badges and tags emit a signal containing a unique ID code, which identifies their location in the facility.
WIRELESS NURSE CALL
Hard-wired equipment, noisy intercoms, stand-alone nurse call and alarm systems, and text pagers are a thing of the past.
Momentum’s RTLS increases nurse call coverage from 2% to 100% of the facility. Residents and staff alike are able to request
assistance from anywhere in the facility through the use of the call button on their badge. This allows a resident to request assistance,
no matter where they are located in the facility, and have a staff member attend to their precise location. Multi-colored corridor
lights allow staff to visually see when a resident is requesting help, and where fellow staff members are currently located.
WANDER GUARD AND PRE-DETERMINED RULES
An increased level of resident care is realized with RTLS in place. Through the resident monitoring features, staff members are alerted
when cognitively impaired residents enter restricted or harmful areas (wander guard), which facilitates the proactive prevention of
resident-to-resident conflicts, residents entering the wrong room, or residents exiting the facility without authorization. Pre-determined
rules are completely customizable, allowing staff to be alerted to such instances as: a mobile resident without their walker, residents
getting up in the middle of the night, residents entering stairwells, etc.
STAFF EFFECIENCIES
By simply glancing at their PDA device or computer, staff members can locate other staff members, residents, or equipment instantly.
This eliminates facility-wide sweeps to locate equipment, and prevents staff from not knowing where residents are. This translates
into a tremendous amount of staff savings of time. In fact, our clients report increasing direct resident care time by 30%.
PDA DEVICES
PDA devices are used to receive all nurse call alerts, including: name of requester, time of request, and current location of resident
requesting assistance. Detailed location information for staff, residents, or equipment is obtained within seconds. Furthermore, staff
are able to send voice and text messages to one another via the PDA devices, improving the level of communication dramatically.
MANAGEMENT TOOLS & REPORTING
Use the integrated reporting features to analyze location, movement, workflow, family concerns, and event data. The built-in reports
are essential tools that facilitate time management studies, classification documentation, researching frequency, duration of
staff/resident interaction, nurse call response times, and the start/spread of infectous diseases. From the Tracking Detail by Badge
Report, to the Alarms Report, RTLS puts time-critical and historical data right at your fingertips.
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