69%
increase in new admissions with admission assessment completed within 12 hours
Skilled Nursing Organization Enhances Efficiency and Compliance With Nursing Advantage
CommCare Corporation is a not-for-profit long-term care community operator serving Louisiana and Missouri since 1994. With 16 skilled nursing and rehabilitation centers, hospice care, and senior living including assisted living, independent living, and memory care, CommCare is dedicated to innovation, quality healthcare services, and fostering the learning and development of their caregivers.
95%
decrease in total number of overdue assessments
Nursing Advantage transformed our workflow, leading to a drastic improvement in assessment completion, a significant reduction in late assessments, a more relatable and systematic approach for staff, and enhanced clinical outcomes through better care planning and intervention integration.
Jan Going, RN, RAC-CTA
Director of Utilization Review, CommCare Corporation
The Challenge
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Custom UDAs were challenging to develop while also maintaining regulatory compliance.
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Inefficiencies in documentation and nursing assessments created cumbersome workflows and impacted the nursing experience for staff, along with creating barriers to complete documentation.
The Solution
CommCare Corporation chose PointClickCare’s Nursing Advantage to deliver efficient, personalized care to residents.
CommCare Corporation chose PointClickCare’s Nursing Advantage to deliver efficient, personalized care to residents.
- Smart Assessments improve efficiency and workflows with process-optimized assessments tied to care plans that allow staff to focus on care delivery.
- Comprehensive assessments eliminate wasted time spent on customized assessments, leveraging connected workflows and ties between diagnoses, assessments, care plans, and MDS.
- Assessments specific to skilled and long-term residents ensure that caregivers deliver consistent care tailored to each resident. This increases assessment quality and incorporates evidence-based clinical suggestions while minimizing readmission risk potential.
The Outcome
69%
increase in new admissions with admission assessment completed within 12 hours
95%
decrease in total number of overdue assessments
CommCare Corporation experienced significant benefits by utilizing Nursing Advantage. “Implementing Nursing Advantage solved our challenges in making sure that we were regulatory compliant, as well as being able to streamline the process and not having to create custom UDAs,” explains Jan Going, RN, RAC-CTA, Director of Utilization Review. “[It] has helped our efficiency all around.”
Nursing Advantage also supported clinical staff with improved workflows, removing barriers to high-quality assessment completion. “From a clinical outcome perspective, it has greatly enhanced our experience, as well as the nursing experience,” Going notes. “We were able to see a drastic improvement in the completion of assessments, as well as the number of late assessments. Everything was very streamlined, and it is easy to view the progress that we have made from Nursing Advantage.”
These improvements allow CommCare to deliver personalized, high-quality care to its residents, allowing a comprehensive approach built on nursing industry best-practices. “I think people should look to Nursing Advantage as the future of EMR documentation when it comes to nursing homes and skilled nursing,” says Going. “I am big on efficiencies and how can we decrease the workload of our staff. Nursing Advantage helps that, and it integrates really well with some of the other products within PointClickCare.”
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