Skilled Nursing News September 27, 2021
What a skilled nursing facility doesn’t know will hurt them.
When working to keep SNF patients out of the hospital, visibility is the name of the game. Seniors experience falls when they are unsupervised, and while operators do excellent work at keeping seniors safe, there is one major blind spot that continues to pose a unique challenge: night time.
Fall risk increases at night, when patients might be groggy or confused, particularly when going to the bathroom. The bathroom holds additional risks, with its slick and often wet surfaces near sharp corners.
Remote patient monitoring (RPM) technologies go toward solving the problem of night falls, but they remain limited, often providing only a single alert or measurement. This makes them...
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