Yardi to Sponsor Changemaker Series in Senior Housing News

LeadingAge CAST Supporter Yardi has partnered with Senior Housing News (SHN) to sponsor a Changemakers series highlighting the innovations and insights of senior living industry pioneers. SHN will publish nine interviews over the next three months, each featuring an industry executive with unique accomplishments and perspectives. Yahoo! Finance reported the news.

New consumer demands, advancing technology, a growing prospect population and enhanced service structures are prompting the senior housing industry to adapt and respond. The Changemakers are executives who have successfully anticipated and reacted to these shifts.

“We’re proud to support these leaders and join Senior Housing News in acknowledging their contributions to our rapidly changing industry,” said Ray Elliott, vice president of senior living at Yardi. “Our collaborative efforts and insights can help senior housing professionals fulfill their potential and provide the best care for the aging population.”

Hosinski Named President and CEO of EHM Senior Solutions

CAST Commissioner Thomas A. Hosinski has been named president and CEO of Evangelical Homes of Michigan (EHM) Senior Solutions, a LeadingAge CAST Patron in Saline, MI. He succeeds Denise Rabidoux, who retired in June. The Council for Health & Human Service Ministries carried the news.

Hosinski had served as interim executive director in the months leading up to his appointment and had spent the past five years as chief operating officer of EHM. He joined EHM in 1996 as director of social services.

American HealthTech Announces New EHR Implementation

CAST Business Associate American HealthTech (AHT), a leading provider of electronic health records (EHR) for the post-acute and senior living markets, has announced a new implementation at Twin Rivers. This recently launched management company owns and manages skilled nursing and rehabilitation facilities across Tennessee.

Twin Rivers, which began operations with a collection of facilities in January 2019, has partnered with AHT since its inception. Twin Rivers has since acquired three additional facilities that are also powered by the latest AHT solutions, BusinessWire reported.

Twin Rivers is also live with AHT’s Communication Center. With secure texting, chat and email functions, providers can now communicate with each other much more efficiently, which in turn has improved patient care.

AHT is a wholly owned subsidiary of CPSI, a leading provider of healthcare solutions and services for community hospitals, their clinics and post-acute care facilities.

CareWorx Fully Managed Gains Pioneer’s Top-tier Technology Certification

CAST Business Associate CareWorx Fully Managed is the only company to achieve the highest-tier Certified Technology Program status in Pioneer’s newly launched Partner Certification Program, says a PRWeb release.

Pioneer designed the program to identify partner companies with expertise in Pioneer medical grade computing products that provide exemplary technology services to the senior care sector. Pioneer designs and manufactures a complete line of industry-specific all-in-one computers, touch screen monitors, kiosks, and tablets.

CareWorx Fully Managed is the senior care industry’s leading provider of complete technology solutions, including managed IT, hardware/mobile devices, and wireless solutions, with 70,000 devices and IT services in over 5,000 facilities. It is a division of global managed services provider (MSP), Fully Managed.

Mather LifeWays Has Sold Two-Thirds of Community to Open in 2023

A Life Plan Community that LeadingAge Provider Member Mather LifeWays expects to open in 2023 near Tysons Corner in Northern Virginia has already sold 200 of its planned 300 units, according to WTOP. All units will incorporate SMART home technology.

The Mather will be a luxury community with two buildings, of 18 and 27 stories. The builder will seek LEED Gold certification. A three-acre public park and retail and restaurant space also will be part of the project.

Prices start at $650,000, with units ranging from 850 square feet to more than 3,000 square feet.

Status Solutions Announces New Implementation, Offers Recruiting Advice

CAST Business Associate Status Solutions has announced that longtime customer Laurel Lake Retirement Community is implementing its CATIE (Communication and Access to Information Everywhere) self-service and resident engagement solution. Senior Living News reported the announcement in “Laurel Lake Retirement Community Fosters Engagement among Residents and Staff with Innovative Technology.”

One of the largest CCRCs in Northeast Ohio, Laurel Lake Retirement Community is a not-for-profit continuing care retirement community that is home to more than 450 older adults and employer to 220 people, as well as a Status Solutions partner since 2011.

In addition, Status Solutions’ General Manager Danielle Myers authored a guest column in McKnight’s Long-Term Care News. “Tackling turnover: How to leverage technology” demonstrates that technology is the way to recruit the essential population of millennials.

Fifty-nine percent of millennials would reconsider a job that doesn’t utilize updated technology, Myers wrote. To attract and retain millennial talent, long-term care managers must implement technology that streamlines communications, delegates task management, ensures employee safety, and enables purposeful work to be performed. Companies that are not adapting to these advanced approaches are missing upcoming generations that can bridge the industry’s employment gap, the column said.