Focus: Environmental Services

Software solutions can help with long-term care physical plant issues

Keeping the physical plant healthy is as important as maintaining that of the residents within


Keeping the physical plant healthy is as important as maintaining that of the residents within at longterm care facilities, according to an article on the McKnight's Long-Term Care website.

Software solutions are available to manage everything from locks, lights and laundry to furnaces, fans and foodservice.

While some of those solutions are just beginning to realize their potential, others are evolving beyond the wildest expectations.

Jeremy Spradlin, CEO of CareServ, said laundry, security and dietary services join housekeeping as the next IT frontier because, even today, “most facilities' direct care staff don't have the technology they need or enough of it.” 

Read the article.

 



April 16, 2018


Topic Area: Information Technology


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