McKnight's 2017 Tech Award presentations
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Illuminate HC
From left: Tim Fields, Chief Marketing Officer, Jo-Ella Podagrosi, Director Communications & Workforce Engagement, Wendy Jeppson, RN, Chief Nursing Officer and McKnight's Editorial Director John O'Connor. The Illuminate system, piloted at Warren Barr Gold Coast in Chicago, led to a 39% reduction in the actual call-light pulls.
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Bronze Award at Highpointe in Buffalo
The Bronze Award in the Quality category was won by HighPointe onMichigan in Buffalo, NY, for its use of a software system to improve quality outcomes. Within six months, its readmission rate went from 24% to 9%. By the end of the first year, it had saved $400,000 in pharmaceutical costs and $100,000 in laboratory charges while also increasing its Medicare star rating by one star.
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Village at Marymount
From left: Daniel Storey of Villa St. Joseph and Suzanne Nail of Village at St. Joseph with McKnight's John O'Connor. Village at Marymount in Garfield Heights, OH, was named the Silver winner in the Dignity category for working with the Medtronic RESTORE Program to implement its FDA-approved treatment initiative for overactive bladder.
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Mather Lifeways
From left: Karmen Maurer, McKnight's Publisher, James Edwartoski, Mather Lifeways Assistant Vice President and Experience Director, Brandon Davidson, Life Center Administrator at The Mather, and John O'Connor, McKnight's Editorial Director. Mather LifeWays earned the Gold Award in the High Tech/High Touch category for its innovative use of art therapy with a "smart" pen.
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Greystone Healthcare Management
Greystone Healthcare Management, based in Tampa, FL, received the Gold in the Transitions category for its management of resident progressions among levels of care. Chris Masterson of Greystone is left, with McKnight's John O'Connor.
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Dunwoody Village
From left: CareRise Index's Terry Sullivan, M.D., mPower's Frank Beech, mPower's Jamie Mccaulay, Dunwoody's Jennifer L. Furjanic, McKnight's Karmen Maurer and McKnight's John O'Connor. Dunwoody won Gold in the Dignity category for its use of the mPower system and results with improving incontinence and fall rates.
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Lexington Health Network
Staff members from Lexington Health Network, Gold Winner for Innovation, accepts their award from McKnight's Editorial Director John O'Connor and Publisher Karmen Maurer.
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Lexington Health Network, Team
The technology team behind Lexington Health Network, which established Curatess (formerly Connected for Care) as a way to support patients in post-acute settings and developed a second-generation LexConnect.
