January 2012
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Improving Communication with Referral Sources and... →
Written By: RecoveryView.com Date: January 8th, 2012. Topic: Member Profile Article.
When your loved one is in a treatment center, getting clean and working toward his or her recovery, it is likely you are riding an emotional roller coaster. No doubt years of hurt, frustration and worry have led to the need for rehabilitation, so most family members are emotionally spent by this point anyway....
December 2011
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November 2011
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September 2011
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New Service Launched For Aging Seniors And Their...
PRESS RELEASE - COLUMBUS, OHIO, SAN FRANCISCO and PALM SPRINGS, CALIFORNIA
As the national trend of seniors staying in their homes longer (aging-in-place) continues, a new danger has emerged. At its root lies the fact that neither the seniors nor their families have the knowledge or experience necessary to recognize when the senior’s declining condition is putting them in danger. Too often that...
Connect to attend National Conference on Addiction... →
National Conference on Addiction Disorders September 17-21, 2011 Town & Country Hotel | San Diego, California
Connect for Behavioral Health™ will be in San Diego, Sept 17th at this premier conference showcasing new ideas and innovations in the fields of recovery and prevention.
With over 900 registrants from 50 states during its first year in 2010, The National Conference on Addiction...
August 2011
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July 2011
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Long-term care software firm scores first... →
MedCity News-7.11.11 / Brandon Glenn
A health IT start up that creates software to connect medical providers at long-term care facilities with patients’ family members has recently signed its first international client.
Aside from the new business, the customer brought another benefit to Columbus, Ohio-based Connect for Healthcare. Because the client is based in Canada and requires a...
June 2011
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Connect 4 Healthcare, LLC announces adoption of... →
Connect 4 Healthcare, LLC announced today that they have signed an agreement with Unity Health System of Rochester New York whereby the health system will implement the Connect for Healthcare™ service in all six of their adult day locations. “Unity’s Adult Day programs had more than 43,000 visits last year. We are especially pleased to be working with such an experienced and dedicated team on the...
May 2011
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NAATP Attendees Speak Out On Communication.
First, we’d like to thank the many amazingly dedicated people we had the opportunity to meet at the National Association of Addiction Treatment Providers (NAATP) 2011 Conference, which represents nearly 275 not-for-profit and for-profit providers (free standing and hospital based programs, which offer a full continuum of care from outpatient, partial hospitalization and inpatient rehabilitation...
New Web Service Increases Communication for... →
Woodbury Reports, Inc. was founded in November 1989, by Lon Woodbury, MA, IECA, CEP, as an Independent Educational Consulting firm to help parents of teens making poor decisions select a private, parent choice program that would help return the family to normalcy. In 1995, StrugglingTeens.com went online as the original website for information about the many schools and programs available for...
April 2011
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New web service for addiction treatment providers... →
(Free-Press-Release.com) April 28, 2011 — Connect 4 Healthcare, LLC will officially launch their newest service, Connect for Healthcare for Behavioral Health™, at the National Association of Addiction Treatment Providers (NAATP), 2011 Conference on May 14 in Chandler Arizona.
Connect 4 Healthcare, LLC. will officially launch...
Connect 4 Healthcare, LLC. will officially launch their newest web service into the Behavioral Health market with Connect for Healthcare for Behavioral Health™ at the National Association of Addiction Treatment Providers (NAATP,) 2011 Conference on May 14.
The newest Connect service provides a secure, highly efficient and easy-to-use web-based solution for Addiction Treatment Facilities and...
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Introducing Connect for Healthcare for Behavioral... →
Discharge from your center isn’t the end of their treatment… it’s a new beginning.
A secure*, highly efficient and easy to use solution for communicating with your referral sources and families that is completely customized to your center and your patient…
Behavioral Health Providers
Drive new and repeat referrals, reduce staff time on the phone and improve outcomes through a custom...
February 2011
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Nearly 7 million people now receive long-term care...
There are 16,100 certified nursing homes in the United States.
There are 39,500 assisted living facilities in the United States.
There are more than 1.7 million nursing home residents in the United States.
There are more than 1.1 million seniors in some type of senior housing community in the United States.
More than 150,000 individuals receive care and services at an adult day center.
By 2020,...
December 2010
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November 2010
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Provider Magazine - Focus On Care Giving - Connect... →
Communication is a key ingredient in effective family collaboration in long term care, says Neil Moore, founder and chief executive officer of Connect 4 Healthcare. He learned this the hard way when he had difficulty staying in touch with staff at a memory care facility where his father-in-law was living several years ago. Moore launched the company in response to enduring this challenge.
The...
October 2010
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September 2010
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The National Senior Living Providers Network... →
Across all aspects of senior care, improving communication between providers and families is the key to delivering better care, minimizing risk, and maximizing survey results. Connect for Healthcare has created a unique service to help providers do just that.
The idea began when Neil Moore’s own father-in law was in a nursing home. He was constantly frustrated with the difficult process of...
The Senior List Website of the Week! →
Connect for Healthcare (www.connect4healthcare.com) is a great resource for families and caregivers alike. Connect for Healthcare was founded by Neil Moore, who was looking for solutions to the difficult task of staying up to date on the well being of loved ones. Instead of just looking for solutions, he decided to create one - called Connect for Healthcare.
FAMILY COMMUNICATION FOR RESOURCE SYSTEMS’...
Automating senior care provider-to-family communication
Connect 4 Healthcare, LLC. announced today that the v.1 integration of their Connect for Healthcare™ family communication platform with Resource Systems’ CareTracker software is complete and available to hosted CareTracker clients.
The integration of the two services enables Resource Systems’ CareTracker clients to automatically populate...
August 2010
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Connect for Healthcare links long-term care... →
MedCity News
8.18.10 | Brandon Glenn | Columbus, Ohio
Neil Moore found himself repeatedly frustrated when he tried to call for updates on how his father-in-law was doing while in a nursing home.
Either calls would go unreturned, or staffers didn’t have enough time to talk, leaving Moore and his family in the dark about his father-in-law, who suffers from Alzheimer’s disease. “It didn’t make...
July 2010
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Updates to Connect service adds flexability to...
We wanted to let you know that in keeping with our commitment to deliver the best service possible and responding to your recommendations for improving Connect for Healthcare™, we are releasing two new features today that deliver even more value.
Today’s release allows you to do 2 new things that several of you have asked for:
1) You can now choose “Monthly” as a scheduled update frequency....
June 2010
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Connect for Healthcare announced as a Finalists in... →
The culmination of the Boomer Venture Summit will be the seventh annual Boomer Business Plan Competition. Since 2004, this competition has fostered a cutting-edge forum to explore, share and design the products and services that will dominate the growing boomer marketplace. Contestants will meet investors and partners, secure resources and get media exposure that can help turn dreams into...
May 2010
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Connect for Healthcare™ improves...
Columbus, OH and Scottsdale, AZ – May 6, 2010 – Connect 4 Healthcare, LLC announced the latest release of their Connect for Healthcare™ service today. According to the Company the new features were designed to improve how care providers communicate with families and are a direct result of customer feedback.
One new feature in the release gives care providers the ability to quickly and...
March 2010
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January 2010
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Connect feature in NYTimes.com - The New Old Age... →
When the vast Consumer Electronics Show, underway this week in Las Vegas, adds an exhibition called Silvers Summit, devoted to new products for the aging and their caregivers, brace yourselves. American tech companies, taking notice of the unmistakable demographic trends, have launched a surge.
“When you have a growing market segment, everybody wants a piece of the action,” said Majd Alwan,...
December 2009
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“I couldn’t live without…” By Brett Bakshis in... →
“Problems stemming from poor communications with a resident or family member can be a huge driver of lawsuits or other potential avoidable issues. But keeping in constant contact with the family isn’t always practical or easy.”
“That’s why Lori Storey, general manager of Columbus, OH-based Right At Home, uses the Internet-based communication service ‘Connect for Healthcare’ to keep in touch with...
Web-based Networking Keeps Families In Touch - By... →
“A survey of 200 family members revealed that they want information about how their loved ones are doing in a number of wellness categories (metrics) of the family’s own choosing like feeling, eating, taking medication, etc.”
“Our system allows family members to log in and select up to 10 of the 46 wellness metrics our families have recommended,’ said Craig Gordon, director of business...
New Service Helps Bridge the Communication Gap... →
One of the reasons experiences break down in healthcare is lack of communication. And that lack of communication leads to misinformation, lack of trust and other issues. A new service helps bridge the communication gap between care providers and the families and caregivers of those receiving care.
Connect for Healthcare helps providers communicate with family members via email and text messaging....
At Your Side Home Care announces an exclusive... →
At Your Side Home Care announces an exclusive service for their clients…A HIPAA compliant web based Connect4Healthcare informational updates for seniors families anywhere in the world! Call us for details 281-335-4882 or email us at clearlaketx@atyoursidehomecare.com This service is especially beneficial for home care clients with children want to be kept abreast of changes in their parents...
Connect for Healthcare - By AgingCare.com – The... →
Connect for Healthcare is a desirable alternative for family members who live long distances from their elderly loved ones. If an aging parent is receiving hospice care or lives in an assisted living or a skilled nursing facility in another city or even another state, family members can feel disconnected from their loved one’s life, health and well-being.
Connect for Healthcare allows for the...
Neil Moore Eases Long Distance Caregiver Stress... →
My mother lives in San Diego. I live about an hour north in Orange County. One sister lives an hour north of Los Angeles. My other sister lives in Baltimore, Maryland.
As one might imagine, long distance caregiving is an issue with which my family continuously grapples. It’s the peace of mind and communication that always seems to be the toughest to maintain. Who calls the community? Who calls...
Connect for Healthcare: A New Service Lets... →
Connect for Healthcare is a web-based company that allows professional caregivers to send out weekly or twice weekly notifications via text, email or post updates on a website to family members of a person that is receiving care either at home or in a senior care community. This service is great for adult children, who either due to distance or circumstance, are unable to visit or check in with a...
Service helps ‘Connect’ loved ones in long-term... →
Service helps ‘Connect’ loved ones in long-term care
Wednesday, July 8, 2009 12:33 PM
By CHRIS BOURNEA ThisWeek Staff Writer
Four former school buddies from Upper Arlington have formed a service that makes it easier for families to receive regular updates about loved ones who are in long-term care facilities.
Connect for Healthcare is a subscription-based Web...
Connect for Healthcare: helping care providers... →
Connect for Healthcare: helping care providers communicate with families
Submitted by Laurie Orlov on Mon, 07/06/2009 - 08:16
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I can hear objections already — yet another tool for adult children to avoid talking with or visiting aging Mom or Dad. But founder Neil Moore (many years in Health IT) may be onto something with Connect for...
Communication Is Key To Better Care, Happy... →
Communication is Key to Better Care, Happy Families
You are traveling. Your mom is in an assisted living community. She isn’t sleeping well or taking her medications. You have three sisters, who also lead busy lives. You are constantly playing phone tag between flights and meetings to find out the most recent update about her health and in turn, call each of your sisters to keep them up to...
Westmoreland families can stay close to their... →
“…Communication with families has always been very important to us. Our residents need their families to know how they are doing and what they need.” said David Dixon, Westmoreland’s administrator. “Before today, the only way families could do that was to call or visit.”
“Everyone’s lives are so hectic, and there are so many family members that live out of...
Your Eyes and Ears: Connect for Healthcare By... →
Your Eyes and Ears: Connect for Healthcare
by Ryan Malone on February 9, 2009
Here’s a problem that many of us face — obtaining wellness updates about your loved one without troubling the staff or being intrusive to your loved. And the problem is compounded if you are the primary caregiver and have friends and family living out of the area.
How do you minimize the phone calls, get more usable...
Connect for Healthcare: By Eugene Borukhovich in... →
There are usually not many groundbreaking uses of technology in long term care, though it is an industry that desperately needs it. There are efforts to improve technology in LTC such as LTC HIT Summit. While not directly focused on solving the inefficiencies in the LTC market, a startup called “Connected for Healthcare” is attempting to focus on the families of the patients that are...
From Reuters: New Internet Service Delivers Relief... →
Service delivers benefits to Seniors, families and care-providers COLUMBUS, Ohio and PHOENIX, Nov. 25 /PRNewswire/ -- There is a new Internet service available that changes the communication paradigm in long-term care. Addressing the family's basic need to stay informed, it allows long-term care providers to give them regular proactive wellness updates through a secure web page, by email and text...