Sentrics launches Ensure360 platform with contact tracing, case management
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Kimberly Marselas
Oct 07, 2020
Sentrics Holdings announced its newest platform, Ensure360SM, to provide contact tracing and case management to senior living communities. The solution combines sensors and sophisticated emergency call...
Medisafe Maestro aims to bring precision to medication adherence
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Kimberly Marselas
Oct 07, 2020
Digital therapeutics companion platform Medisafe has deployed its new Maestro platform, which aims to orchestrate medication adherence journeys with precision and speed and create personalized patient...
Essence SmartCare launches MDsense to enable complete senior fall protection
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Kimberly Marselas
Oct 07, 2020
Essence SmartCare’s new MDsense multidimensional fall detection solution launched last month, with intelligent sensors providing a new alternative to wearables and a way to reduce false alarms. MDsense...
AOTI’s topical oxygen line adds treatment for larger-extremity wounds
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Kimberly Marselas
Oct 07, 2020
Advanced Oxygen Therapy expanded its multimodality topical wound oxygen product family with a new, larger extremity-chamber that will allow more patients with non-healing wounds to benefit. The new chamber...
Acrylic partitions aim to make visits safer for users of wheelchairs, rollators
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Kimberly Marselas
Oct 07, 2020
An acrylic wheelchair/rollator protection barrier is the latest product from Florida-based SafeguardMyBiz, once best known for its sneeze guards. Designed with nursing home, rehab and assisted living...
Christian Living Communities names Vitale-Aussem next CEO
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Kimberly Marselas
Oct 07, 2020
Christian Living Communities, a Colorado-based not-for-profit senior living services organization, named Jill Vitale-Aussem as its future president and CEO. She will come aboard Nov. 15, replacing Terry...
Nathaniel Witherell adds new directors of nursing, financial operations
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Kimberly Marselas
Oct 07, 2020
Nadia Benson, RN, has joined The Nathaniel Witherell as director of nursing services while Nunzio Raimo has been named director of financial operations at the skilled nursing and short-term rehabilitation...
Conk appointed administrator at new Orchards Health Center
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Kimberly Marselas
Oct 07, 2020
Kelly Conk has been named administrator of the new Orchards Health Center in Rancho Mission Viejo, CA. The community is scheduled to open this month with 58 assisted living apartments and 1 20-bed memory...
Pikeville combines remote monitoring, transitional care to claim Tech Awards Gold
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Kimberly Marselas
Oct 06, 2020
Editor’s Note: The 2020 winners of the McKnight’s Excellence in Technology Awards are being announced Sept. 29 to Oct. 6. Skilled Care track winners are being announced here by McKnight’s Long-Term...
Rocky Knoll Health Care Center wins Gold with innovative vibration technology for low-mobility residents
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Kimberly Marselas
Oct 05, 2020
Four years ago, Rocky Knoll Health Care Center invested in a device that uses vibration to reduce atrophy and pain in low-mobility patients receiving therapy.