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The App to Help Home Care Agencies Focus on the Essentials

Posted on January 20, 2021 by Daria Ivantsova

More real help instead of drowning in paperwork

The rising number of elders continues to need daily or intermittent care. Home care agencies are in great demand nowadays. Caregivers do hard work and the strain continues to increase. Considering this, modern mobile solutions try to help simplify and accelerate some organizational and management tasks as well as operations with data and documentation to free up more time for real help.

One small app with such great assistance

Home care agencies must be legally executed and operate in strict accordance with some regulations. Strict control and regular inspections are in the order of things for them. This way, specialists have to fill out many different forms every day. To make this process easier and more optimized, Snappii has developed the In Home Care Providers app. First of all, this app allows users to get rid of paperwork. It provides 30+ ready-made mobile forms for caregivers and clients, which allows slashing the documentation time in half. The completed forms can be easily generated to PDF files and instantly shared via email, cloud drives, or printed. The In Home Care Providers app is easy to adopt in any organization with just a 10-minutes training. An important fact is that it complies with HIPAA. Watch this video to see the In Home Care Providers app in action.

Some results the app has already brought to its users

John Bennett, Executive Director of Sunny Days In-Home Care company says: “The app saves time and money by giving our field staff the ability to submit documentation from anywhere in our territory. We continue to grow our territory size and are able to run everything out of one office because we can submit documents instantaneously with our app. Also, the state is constantly changing policies and we can make quick adjustments to our documentation within the app so that our staff is immediately using documents that meet the requirements for compliance. It has enabled us to scale our business at a rapid rate. We have grown quickly enough to be an Inc. 5000 company four years in a row, that wouldn’t be possible without Snappii.”

The Snappii team is ready to add your existing forms right to this app. Send them to us and let’s discuss app customization.

Home Assessments in the Home Care Service: How to Improve this Process

Posted on August 11, 2020 by Daria Ivantsova

The main thing all families with elderly members worry about

Most of elderly family members value their independence and the ability to live in their homes as long as possible. However there is a plenty of risks when they are living alone in their homes, and this worries all other family members and loved ones. Some of the major risks for the elderly people may include falls, poor nutrition, and poor cognitive function. This way, people frequently hire home care agencies to ensure peace of mind for everyone and make a senior’s home as safe as possible.

What is home assessment

Home assessments are an important component of home care service. It helps determine the degree of safety and comfort of seniors in their homes, and also the need for assistive equipment and tools. To conduct proper home assessment and ensure patients’ safety, home care specialists use special forms and checklists. They can contain the following fields:

– availability of clear paths free of obstructions for safe moving,

– availability of notes and labels with emergency numbers by large print,

– frequently used items are easily accessible,

– availability of grab bars in the shower and beside the toilet,

– all rooms are brightly lit,

-etc.

The benefits of mobile apps for convenient and efficient home assessments

Today the most convenient, fast and efficient way of home assessments is using special mobile apps. They allow specialists to avoid lugging around a plenty of paper forms. All necessary forms and checklists are right in their mobile devices. Specialists can quickly fill them out in a few clicks. It is the way to get accurate and timely data and have constant access to it.

Keeping in mind the problem of tedious and inconvenient paperwork, Snappii has created In Home Care Providers app with 30+ ready-made forms. This smart app allows its users to fill out mobile forms on any mobile device and share them as PDF files with anybody via email, cloud, WhatsApp, etc. In Home Care Providers app helps never lose documentation and always be ready for any State or federal inspection or compliance audit. Here is a short video about the app.

Moreover, Snappii is ready to transform any existing form to its digital analogue. For example, we can convert your home assessment forms and checklists to the app. We will meet your specific needs in the shortest possible time. Send your forms and requirements here. Learn how Snappii helped Sunny Days Home Care Agency scale the business at a rapid rate and get into the Inc. 5000 list.

The Top Tips for Home Care Agencies to Improve Management of Field Employees

Posted on June 18, 2020 by Daria Ivantsova

Employees of home care agencies spend most, if not all, of their time working in the field. This way, homecare managers face a unique challenge to manage employees and operations which are rarely in their sight. These simple tips can help home care agencies build a solid infrastructure for managing their employees, and take the agency to the next level.

A culture of transparency and interaction

Encourage a culture of transparency and honesty. Keep employees up to date with all the important points of the agency’s operation. Make sure everyone understands and accepts the work policy, instantly notify employees about any changes. Clarity in the workplace helps keep interactions with employees. Create a reliable and confidential channel for employees to approach their managers with concerns. Approachable and encouraging managers contribute to more pleased and efficient field team.

Meeting and career advancement opportunities

While homecare employees conduct most of their work outside of managers’ physical view, it’s important to hold regular meetings. They are an opportunity to discuss any issues and offers, as well as show an interest in developing and work improving. Also, home care agencies that offer their employees career advancement educational and other opportunities have a much greater chance of more productive team.

Mobile technologies

Modern mobile technologies can help organize a workflow of home care agencies. Special mobile apps are a great solution for managers to constantly keep in touch with field employees. Also they provide a lot of advantages for caregivers and make their work faster, more convenient and efficient. Utilizing mobile apps for home care, managers are able to optimize the work with documentation. Paperwork is time consuming and tedious. Thank to mobile apps, managers get a constant flow of timely and accurate data and can easily and quickly process it right on their mobile devices.

In Home Care Providers app

Snappii offers In Home Care Providers app to optimize work of any home care agency. It is the best way to manage all usual documentation and save time, effort and money. In Home Care Providers app provides 30+ ready-made mobile forms for caregivers and clients, which allows slashing the documentation time in half. Focus on business growth instead of paperwork. This app allows managers to be ready for any audits and compliance. It is easy to train how to use the app.

Here is what John Bennett, Executive Director of Sunny Days In-Home Care company says: “The app saves time and money by giving our field staff the ability to submit documentation from anywhere in our territory. We continue to grow our territory size, and are able to run everything out of one office because we can submit documents instantaneously with our app. Also, the state is constantly changing policies and we can make quick adjustments to our documentation within the app so that our staff is immediately using documents that meet the requirements for compliance.”

Watch the video about In Home Care Providers app to learn how it works. Download and try the app. Need any customization? Let’s discuss your requirements. Send them here.

In Home Care Provider App: How Snappii helped Sunny Days Home Care Agency Get into the Inc. 5000 List

Posted on December 11, 2019 by Daria Ivantsova

Where we are now regarding the elderly population

While the size of the world’s elderly population has been increasing for centuries, it is only in recent decades that the proportion has caught the attention of researchers and policy makers. Now North America and Oceania have relatively high aggregate percentages of elderly, and these are projected to increase substantially in the coming decades. Also the fastest-growing age segment in many countries is the oldest old. In the United States, the oldest old increased from 374,000 in 1900 to more than 9 million today. And the stats predicts its stable increase (Consensus Study Report “Preparing for an Aging World. The Case for Cross-National Research”).

What that means is that there will be an increase in the need for various institutions of working with the elderly. This demand can be observed already today. Thanks to modern advances in medicine, technology, social sphere, etc., we can provide the elderly decent care and assistance and continue to develop and increase build on the momentum in this field.

How not to drown in paperwork

Today each home care agency needs a technology infrastructure that sets them up for success in a rapidly developing industry. The main difficulty agencies deal with is paperwork. Quite often this significantly slows down the growth of the business. Every process of daily operations should be documented and taken into account. Let’s talk about various inspections in particular. It is a key point in such field as home care. Agencies must be strongly sure of every aspect of the services they provide, and report to the higher authorities. Modern mobile technology offers a solution to avoid drowning in paperwork and focus on improving the service.

Snappii is in a hurry to help

Sunny Days In-Home Care company provides professional, affordable, and caring in-home living assistance for seniors in the Pittsburgh area and surrounding regions. Its management staff is constantly in the field and deal with many forms. John Bennett, Executive Director, has turned to Snappii, a leading business app development company, to optimize their work with documentation. Here is what they got “The app saves time and money by giving our field staff the ability to submit documentation from anywhere in our territory. We continue to grow our territory size, and are able to run everything out of one office because we can submit documents instantaneously with our app. Also, the state is constantly changing policies and we can make quick adjustments to our documentation within the app so that our staff is immediately using documents that meet the requirements for compliance.” This way, Snappii has helped Sunny Days not just digitize operations and avoid paperwork but also grow the business.

Paperwork optimization and a way to get to Inc. 5000 list

Now Sunny Days is in Inc. Magazine’s Inc. 5000 list. The list is a compilation of the fastest-growing private companies in the country across more than 30 industries ranging from logistics and media to manufacturing and health. Companies such as Microsoft, Dell, LinkedIn, Yelp, Zillow, and many other huge names gained their first national exposure as honorees of the Inc. 5000. Snappii is proud of Sunny Days and happy to participate in the achievement of even greater success by them.

In Home Care Provider app for your business. Fast and affordable

Snappii is ready to help you achieve greater results just as we did for Sunny Days. We will customize In Home Care Provider app for you according to specific requirements of your business. What you will get:

– Collecting documentation electronically on your own app

– No need to hire people to process and move paper around

– Constant readiness for audits and compliance

– Use-friendly app to easily train people to use it

In Home Care Provider app will provide you even more benefits to keep up with the fast-paced industry, be competitive and successful.

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