2020 Technology Awards
The complete list of winners in the Senior Living track of the 2020 McKnight’s Technology Awards.
A pursuit to adopt technology that serves and entertains residents paid off this spring for Williamsburg Landing, Gold winner in the 2020 McKnight’s Excellence in Technology Awards for its High-Tech/High-Touch entry in the Senior Living track.
Looking to reduce falls in its short-term rehabilitation unit, life plan community John Knox Village of Lee’s Summit, MO, became the first long-term care facility to use an artificial intelligence platform equipped with machine vision and sensors to achieve its goals. The community now plans to roll out the technology across the entire campus.
An innovative temperature-taking approach that protects staff members has won CareOne a Gold in the Safety category in the Senior Living track 2020 McKnight’s Excellence in Technology Awards.
For its efforts to reconnect residents with loved ones during the pandemic, Inlet Coastal Resort has won Gold in the Keep It Super Simple category of the 2020 McKnight’s Excellence in Technology Awards.
When real estate investment trust LTC Properties approached Juniper Communities, one its operators, back in March offering support at the outset of the COVID-19 pandemic, a bright idea virtually popped into the head of Juniper founder and CEO Lynne Katzmann, Ph.D. That bright idea has won Gold in the activities category of the Senior Living track of the 2020 McKnight’s Excellence in Technology Awards.
Fellowship Community’s Lisa Vercusky had been looking for new ways to engage with memory care residents when an online search at home led her to a tool common in Europe but virtually unheard of in the United States. The Magical Memory Table the team cobbled together over the next year is the Gold winner in the Quality category of the Senior Living track of the 2020 McKnight’s Excellence in Technology Awards.
The annual contest, a joint program of McKnight’s Senior Living and sister McKnight’s Long-Term Care News, recognizes providers that convey how technology — simple or advanced — has improved care and operations in their organizations. There is no cost to enter.
The submission deadline for the 2020 McKnight’s Excellence in Technology Awards has been extended one week to Friday, July 31. There is no cost to enter.
July 24 is the submission deadline for the 2020 McKnight’s Excellence in Technology Awards, a joint program of McKnight’s Senior Living and sister McKnight’s Long-Term Care News. There is no cost to enter.
Your opportunity to create some great news for your organization is literally one click away.
Someday, when we look back on 2020, we might well say it was the year of technology in senior living.
The 2020 McKnight’s Excellence in Technology Awards program is accepting entries for six more weeks, through July 24.The competition features two tracks — one for senior living, and one for skilled nursing — with six categories each.
The 2020 McKnight’s Excellence in Technology Awards program is now open for nominations. Entries will be accepted through July 24.
2019 Technology Awards
The complete list of winners in the Senior Living track of the 2019 McKnight’s Technology Awards.
Devotion to technological innovation helped The Moments, a 32-suite memory care community care in Lakeville, MN, win the top prize in the category of Innovator of the Year in the Senior Living track of the 2019 McKnight’s Excellence in Technology Awards.
Hunters Woods at Trails Edge, a state-of-the-art senior community in Reston, VA, elevated its resident safety system to a new level. For this reason, it received the top prize in the Safety category of the Senior Living track in the 2019 McKnight’s Excellence in Technology Awards.
Caretel Inns seized Gold in the category of High-High, High-Touch in the Senior Living track of the 2019 McKnight’s Excellence in Technology Awards for creating its own smart nurse call light system.
Replacing paper flyers with digital display screens for staff and resident communications earned Three Pillars Senior Living Communities top honors in the category of Keep It Super Simple in the Senior Living track of the 2019 McKnight’s Excellence in Technology Awards.
Brookdale Canyon Lake residents make the news, literally, every week. For this reason, the community won the top prize, Gold, in the Activities category of the Senior Living track of the 2019 McKnight’s Excellence in Technology Awards.
The Ganzhorn Suites, a highly specialized memory care assisted living community in Powell, OH, aims to set new standards for Alzheimer’s and dementia care. Its proprietary real-time locating system, which is designed to promote both safety and independence, has earned the community a Gold award in the Quality category of the Senior Living track of the 2019 McKnight’s Excellence in Technology Awards.
Nominations are rolling in for the 2019 McKnight’s Excellence in Technology Awards program. Don’t be left out!
The deadline for the McKnight’s Excellence in Technology Awards has been extended to July 31.
Learn more and start the entry process at https://www.mcknightstechawards.com/. There is no fee to enter.
Three reasons to enter the free McKnight’s Excellence in Technology awards. The deadline is July 24.
Innovator of the Year and Activities are two of the six categories open to senior living operators in the 2019 McKnight’s Excellence in Technology Awards program. The deadline is two weeks away.
The deadline to enter the 2019 McKnight’s Excellence in Technology Awards program is just three weeks away.
Has your community used technology to improve care or operations in the past year? If yes, the 2019 McKnight’s Excellence in Technology Awards program is here to give your organization the opportunity to obtain the recognition it deserves. And a free webinar this week will help you learn about technology while earning a continuing education credit.
Nominations are rolling in for the 2019 McKnight’s Excellence in Technology Awards program. Don’t be left out!
The competition features two tracks — one for senior living, and one for skilled nursing — with six categories each.
2018 Technology Awards
The complete list of winners in the Senior Living track of the 2018 McKnight’s Technology Awards.
A Montessori dementia care program and the use of technology to communicate with residents and staff are the Gold winners in the Quality and Training categories, respectively, of the Senior Living track of the 2018 McKnight’s Excellence in Technology Awards. Hillcrest Health Services and Mercy Ridge Retirement Community are the winners in these categories.
Communities that use a virtual reality staff training program and a unified nurse call and wander management system are the Gold winners of the Innovator of the Year and Safety categories, respectively, in the Senior Living track of the 2018 McKnight’s Excellence in Technology Awards. Chicago Methodist Senior Services and Bickford Senior Living are the respective winners in these categories.
The use of flash cards that remind people of information vital to their recovery, and the use of an accessible piece of exercise equipment, have led to awards in the Keep It Super Simple and High-Tech / High-Touch categories in the 2018 McKnight’s Excellence in Technology Awards. The winners in these categories are FutureCare Cherrywood and Christian Village Communities, respectively.
An internally developed app to foster family engagement, and the use of technology designed to improve resident quality of life, were the focus of Gold Award winners in the Marketing and Activities categories, respectively, in the Senior Living track of the 2018 McKnight’s Excellence Technology Awards. Windsor Healthcare and Charlie’s Place Activity and Respite Center are the winners in these categories.
Programs that ease the move-in process for residents and staff and that create “legacy messages” for residents have captured Gold Awards in the Transitions and Dignity categories, respectively, in the Senior Living track of the 2018 McKnight’s Excellence in Technology Awards. Sunrise Senior Living and Spectrum Retirement Communities are the winners in these categories.
Today is the day! It’s the deadline for senior living and skilled nursing operators to enter the McKnight’s Excellence in Technology Awards.
Time is running out! Tomorrow is the deadline for senior living and skilled nursing operators to enter the McKnight’s Excellence in Technology Awards.
The deadline for entry submission to the McKnight’s Excellence Technology Awards has been extended by one week to Friday, July 27.
The hard part was implementing technology to improve care and operations. The easy part is entering the McKnight’s Excellence in Technology Awards to try to get recognized for it. The deadline is this Friday.
You are in a position to not only read some good news, but to make some of your own.
Just a little more than a month remains for senior living and skilled nursing operators to submit entries for the 2018 McKnight’s Excellence in Technology Awards competition.
This year’s competition has been expanded to include two tracks with a combined total of 20 categories. The deadline to enter is July 20.
The 2018 McKnight’s Excellence in Technology Awards program is expanding to two tracks while doubling the number of available categories.
2017 Tech Awards
Friday is the deadline for receipt of entries in the 2017 McKnight’s Excellence in Technology Awards. The contest has five categories in which senior living and long-term care operators may submit entries.
McKnight’s Senior Living and sister publication McKnight’s Long-Term Care News have extended until July 28 the deadline for entries in the 2017 McKnight’s Excellence in Technology Awards. The contest has five categories.
Has your community used technology to improve care, dignity, staff-resident interaction, the bottom line or transitions between care settings? If so, then enter the 2017 McKnight’s Excellence in Technology Awards.
2015 Tech Awards
Providers now have until Friday, July 31, to submit their entry to the 4th Annual McKnight’s Excellence in Technology Awards.
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The 2015 McKnight’s Excellence in Technology awards program is now accepting submissions from skilled nursing, assisted living and continuing care retirement community operators.