Signature HealthCARE and CAREASCEND Win Gold and Top Honors

Louisville, Ky., Oct. 18, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Infection control has always been paramount in the care, safety, protection, and health of our beloved residents at all our Signature HealthCARE facilities. The past two years have taught us many things in the medical industry about innovation, forward-thinking, and creating new technologies and partnerships to defend the lives of our residents, staff, and families. That is why we are truly honored to announce that our pioneering partnership with CareAscend has been awarded the top distinction of Gold, in McKnights 2022 Excellence in Technology Awards, in the Keep It Super Simple, or KISS category.

In November of 2021, Signature HealthCARE and CareAscend launched a digital evaluation and fit-testing app for the Occupational Safety and Health Administration’s (OSHA) paper form, which requires all staff to be appropriately fit tested for N95 masks. Signature HealthCARE and CareAscend worked seamlessly to create an innovative digital process through the CareAscend App, which now allows staff and Signature’s medical practitioners to electronically work with facility leadership to complete the OSHA Medical evaluation and fit-testing process for N95 masks. For our staff, this newly created process has shown to be more effective and efficient than the traditional, more time-consuming paper evaluation form. The new digital process saves staff many hours, if not days, and in our ever-changing and demanding environment, our dedicated medical practitioners thrive on convenience! 

Dr. Arif Nazir, Chief Medical Officer of SHC Medical Partners, a joint venture between BrightSpring Health Services and Signature HealthCARE, and Amber Gensheimer, Director of Infection Control and Quality Management at Signature HealthCARE, lead Signature’s efforts in increasing efficiencies and efficacies in infection control. At the same time, they diligently follow the increasing requirements by the CDC, CMS, and OHSA. From…