At Skilled Nursing News' ReThink conference in Philadelphia, nursing leaders from Trilogy Health Services and Signature HealthCARE described how AI monitoring is changing clinical work. Trilogy's SVP and Chief Nursing Officer Rhonda Dempsey said high-risk residents wear a 24-hour chest device that alerts nurses when temperature rises two degrees above a personal baseline and stays elevated for about an hour. The tool is on roughly 300 residents and has helped cut hospitalizations by 60%, she said, by catching problems before sepsis forces a transfer.
Signature HealthCARE Chief Nursing Officer Barbara Revelette said CareAI movement detection started in four buildings and now covers 20 of Signature's 69 locations across five states. Clinical teams reported an 80% drop in falls where the technology was live. Signature pairs that ambient monitoring with a virtual sitter program: live staff in Louisville watch eight to 10 residents at a time and call the floor nurse when someone tries to get out of bed. Both leaders stressed that tools only stick when they remove work from caregivers; otherwise staff invent unapproved workarounds that can create HIPAA risk.
Fall prevention, rehospitalization risk and documentation burden are the same pressures communities face in skilled nursing or assisted living. Ambient monitoring and virtual sitters are becoming core resident safety infrastructure, and they work best when alerts reach caregivers through the systems they already use—including nurse call, phones and messaging.
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Source: Skilled Nursing News
