What Our Clients Say About EQUIP
"At this time when quality care and cost savings in nursing homes are of
such paramount concern, the EQUIP product from NYAHSA provides a timely
solution for both. EQUIP is a breakthrough way to anticipate resident
outcomes and improve assessments and treatment in your facility as it
contributes to cost containment. It can help you do a better job of taking
care of your residents and minimizing liability exposure!"
William L. (Larry) Minnix Jr., D. Min.
President and CEO
American Association of Homes and Services for the Aging (AAHSA),
Washington, D.C.
"Of all of the innovations that we've introduced over the last 10 years,
none has had a more positive impact than EQUIP. Our organization was able to
demonstrate to our insurance underwriter that by using EQUIP's comprehensive
risk reports in our QI analysis process, our facility is doing a far better
job at identifying and preventing adverse outcomes. This resulted in a more
than 10 percent reduction (over $30,000 in savings) in our 2003 liability
insurance premium."
Tom Holt
President and CEO
Lutheran Social Services Group, Inc.
"We did an extensive study with a multi-disciplinary task force and,
after reviewing all the alternatives, EQUIP was the standout choice. The
biggest factor for us in selecting EQUIP was its predictive feature --
the ability to identify residents at high risk for such medical issues as
developing UTIs, bed sores, or falls. EQUIP uses MDS data to drill down to
the resident specific level on a real-time basis on the Web. With EQUIP, we
can benchmark ourselves against our peer group as well as against a state
and national database. We can now collectively share our best practices from
one facility to another. That translates into better care and better
financial outcomes."
Michael O'Brien
President
Connecticut Alliance for Long Term Care (CALTC)
"We chose EQUIP over other programs because it is so user-friendly
that our residents and staff were able to benefit from the program right
away. When we performed the trial at one of our facilities, the staff
was able to use EQUIP and understand what was there immediately. If a nurse
doesn't understand it, they're not going to use it. EQUIP has many useful
features and one of the best is the ability to input information and have
the reports available immediately. We set up the trial and ran the
at-risk-for-falls report. The very next day the restorative nurse was
implementing new systems."
Brian Stever
Senior Operations Consultant, Clinical Information Systems
PHI Presbyterian Homes Aging and Health Care
"For quite some time we have built our quality assurance program around
EQUIP. Recently we started using EQUIP to gain information on the cognitive
status of our residents. The EQUIP data has replaced the need for costly
testing, saving us about $8,500 per year in staff time to administer those
tests. I can't recommend EQUIP highly enough to nursing homes that want
to improve the quality of their service while substantially lowering their
costs."
D.L. Murphy
CEO/Administrator
Rosewood Heights Health Center
"As the corporate privacy and compliance officer for nine continuing care
retirement communities (CCRCs) in five states, I provide EQUIP
benchmarking reports to the board of directors on a continuous basis.
Each quarter I combine the EQUIP QI Profile and Survey Special Focus Areas
reports using our corporate averages and the national rates as comparisons.
This information is also sent to the individual communities, which are
highly competitive in reaching or exceeding the lowest benchmark. This has
augmented interest in using EQUIP at the community level, resulting in
subsequent process improvement."
Karen S. Coburn, CHC
Corporate Privacy & Compliance Officer
Life Care Retirement Communities Inc., Des Moines, IA
"We love the reports. We are using them to provide
feedback to our RN Unit Managers who act as MDS Coordinators on
each of our 7 units. These 7 people are then responsible for correcting
any problems if able, prior to submission. This is also a great teaching
tool/learning experience. We were already doing our own audits of the
forms but this now is an enhancement to our audit process."
Barbara Gorenflo
Assistant Administrator
Beechwood Residence, Getzville, NY
"We used another quality indicator program for our JCAHO ORYX submissions
for a year. It cranked out plenty of statistics, but because the reports
were not user friendly, we gained very little information. Everyone is
much more comfortable using the EQUIP reports and, therefore, much more
willing to take an active role our quality improvement program. EQUIP
has been a great asset for our facility."
Christine Douglas, RN, DON
Margaret Teitz Center
"In this era of contentious and widely-publicized survey results,
EQUIP software is essential for proper survey preparation. You will be
fully aware of the residents to be reviewed and what issues the surveyors
will focus on because you will have the same information as the state. EQUIP
also permits the proper allocation of scarce staffing to where problems
exist. If you have a weight loss problem, EQUIP will identify it so that
your performance improvement efforts are on weight loss, not something else
that may not be a problem. EQUIP is the essential quality management tool."
Peter Young
Vice President/Administrator
Eddy Memorial Geriatric Center