Staff Texting

PALs now enables staff texting. When entering staff information, you now can enter the staff's cell carrier, and with this information, plus the cell phone number, you have the ability to automatically send a text message to one or all staff members.

So now when you click on "Send Email" you also have the option to "Send Text Message". This may come in handy when you want to fill a shift, send a meeting reminder, or simply send a text message to someone working, without having the interruption of a phone call.

Where Is My Data!

When moving software to "The Cloud", from your C-Drive or server, are you losing control of your data?

When the data is on your C-drive or server, you can always get to it. You invest a lot of time and energy into entering the data, so you hate to see it leave your computer, and your control.

When PALs is hosted on "The Cloud", your raw data is only a click away. You can download data from "The Cloud" to your computer whenever you wish. You can even filter the data, select specific fields to export, or download selected or all data files. The files are zipped and downloaded automatically, and they become available to you on your computer for further data-mining using tools such as Crystal Reports or Excel or to design a merge file for a Word document.

So having your data on "The Cloud", need not result in you losing access to your data.

Planning Tool for Assisted Living Providers

We have the best users! They are definitely the leaders of PALs development team.

Shortly after adding our Dashboard (see previous blog), a user called to say thanks and that it was helpful to see what they did in the past. But what about changing it to a forecasting tool!

GREAT IDEA. Yes, by giving users the option of editing the data, they could project "What If" scenarios to guide their future coarse. So now, you can edit any month to see what effect a change would make. Or edit a month to ask, what if we raise staff salaries by 10%, what effect would that have on the overall performance. Similar for Resident fees. Or if we change the shift productivity ratio (care hours / staff hours) what effect would that have.

Once the scenario looks like the future you want, make it the agency's goal, for example, by instructing the staff scheduler to create the future staff work schedule to reflect the new shift productivity ratio. If you can measure it, you can change it.

Thank you users for your contributions in making PALs software the best software of its type.

Dashboard for Assisted Living Providers

PALs has just completed a new Dashboard to present Key Performance Indicators for Assisted Living providers.

With a simple click, up-to-date data is retrieved from throughout PALs showing trends for the past 6 months. No additional data-entry is needed.

By watching this Dashboard, and in combination with our "7 Steps to Guaranteed Profits", an organization can easily direct their pathway to profits.

For more information, please see our website at www.PALsSoftware.com and call for a guest pass to experience PALs Software firsthand on "The Cloud".

Send Text Message to Staff

I was talking with a new PALs user yesterday, and when reviewing the Staff Information section, he asked if it was possible to sent a TEXT MESSAGE to all staff. It was not a feature, but because we agreed it was a good idea, today it is a feature.

This is one of the many reasons why users prefer PALs; if something seems like a good idea, we add it NOW! This is also why PALs is the most comprehensive software of its type; we listen to our customers and view them as part of our development team.

NY Assisted Living Assessment

Update: we have now added another New York Assessment, DSS-4449D, "Nursing/Functional/Social Assessment" for Assisted Living Programs. Call for an online demonstration. Click HERE to view document.

NY - Medical Evaluation

PALs has added two new assessment forms for New York's Assisted Living communities; 1. Medical Evaluation and 2. Mental Health Evaluation. These forms are user-defined, so you can edit the form to customize it for your "brand" and to speed up data entry.

For more information please visit out website at www.PALsSoftware.com

Resident Appraisal For Ca Residential Care Facilities

PALs has added the Resident Appraisal assessment for California users. PALs, using its user-defined assessments, has always captured the needed data. Now we have formatted it to look like the actual form, Lic 603a (7/99).

To view the form, click HERE. For further information please visit our website and download our free trial at: www.PALsSoftware.com

Medication Protocol - for Assisted Living

A new user asked if PALs has a feature where a person could enter a Protocol of 5-10 medications and have them all be entered at once. At the time we didn't. But the idea sounded like a good one; so four hours later that feature was added to PALs.

PALs, Professional Assisted Living Software, as the name implies is primarily developed for Assisted Living Communities. The user making this request is operating a Detox center and Residential program for  Addiction Recovery. This same protocol process can be used for entering Standing Orders, or a Protocol of treatments.

PALs is very appreciative for all the suggestions made by our faithful users who have partnered with us to make PALs the preferred software for residential communities.

For more information, please visit our website at www.PALsSoftware.com or call.

New Hampshire Assisted Living Assessment

PALs has added New Hampshire's, "Resident Assessment Tool / Needs Determination" form.
This once again demonstrates PALs flexibility with its User-Defined Assessment tool.
For a FREE trial, visit our website at www.PALsSoftware.com

Staff Credentialing in Assisted Living

Assisted Living Communities are required by regulations to verify a variety of staff credentialing from criminal background checks to tuberculosis testing. How to keep track of them all, and add an agency's own requirements?

PALs approaches this through the assessment process and a customized report. Our assessment library now contains a Staff Credentialing template that you  can customize for your state and agency and print reports telling you what documentation is missing, or when CPR training is due, or when a license is about to expired.

See video below for more information, and to try this process yourself, simply download PALs FREE Trial from our website at www.PALsSoftware.com

Click HERE for video of PALs Credentialing Process.

Georgia's PHYSICIAN’S MEDICAL EVALUATION FOR ASSISTED LIVING

PALs has completed another state's assisted living assessment.

PALs library of user-defined assessment now contains Georgia's "Physician's Medical Evaluation". This form not only contains the required data, but also is formated to look like the state's form.

To review this form and the entire PALs assisted living products, visit our website at www.PALsSoftware and download our FREE trial.