Project Overview
Congregate Care Activity Tracker
Efficiency: The New Imperative in Aged Care
Patent No. 62/050,480
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Facts
Efficiency Is Critical
- Over 2.5 million elderly (“clients”) reside in 35,000 congregate settings cared for by 4 million paid staff
- 60 to 70% of every budget is labor
- $175 Billion annually
- Currently no way to measure or monitor staff – who is doing what, when or with which client = low or no efficiency
- Operators charge residents “package pricing” = guessing
- Operators are under growing pressure – rent increase less than CPI, clients want to pay less, while staff want to be paid more
- Occupancy & utilization have been declining; this trend will continue for 5/ 10 years
- Litigation represents a growing risk to the owners and operators of congregate care settings
What We Do
- Measure actual time spent by staff with individual clients (passively)
- Measure staff performing tasks
- Schedule tasks, & measure completion
- Two-way communications between clients & staff
Patented System No. 62/050,480
- RFID on Staff & Clients (“passive”)
- Position & motion fed to server
- Server & on line hub – reports
- Scheduling software + 2-way signals between server & Client
What This Does
Simple Efficiency = Big Savings
- How much time is Maria w/ Mrs. Jones?
- 10% improvement = $11.3 Billion savings
- For an average SNF = $695,000 / year
- For an average ALR – $270,000 / year
- Reductions in overtime & agency = more