States
47
Hours
24
Coverage
National
A provider of short-term post-acute, rehabilitation, skilled nursing and long-term care services required the support of RGIS. The company operates approximately 500 skilled nursing centers and assisted senior living care homes in states across the US. The company also supplies rehabilitation therapy to approximately 1,700 healthcare providers in 47 states, and have distribution centers with approximately 80,000 employees.
THE CHALLENGE
The leading provider of long term elderly care homes needed a solution to count all medications within all their care homes, so that staff could focus on patient care.
The care home provider required RGIS to provide the following:
- To have reach, responsiveness, and reliability
- National coverage to cover all care homes in 47 states and distribution centers (DCs)
- Final data had to be delivered electronically within 24 hours
- A new program design was required to streamline the medication counts
Sectors
Why RGIS?
Customers choose RGIS for medication inventory counts because our trained teams deliver highly accurate, compliant audits of regulated pharmaceutical products, ensuring full traceability, reduced discrepancies, and confidence in patient-safety and regulatory requirements.
Our Solutions
The care home provider partnered with RGIS to complete the care home medication count, and RGIS provided the following:
Reviewed the customers’ existing medication count process
RGIS teams developed a new, streamlined program
The new program allowed the client to flag thresholds by cost
RGIS’ experienced scheduling team worked to minimize disruption to patient care
RGIS Managers visited the care home facilities, educating the staff to help ease the transition over to the new software
To aid with in-house follow-up audits, RGIS auditors posted detailed area printouts
Results
The care home provider found by outsourcing the care home medication count to RGIS, the following results were achieved:
The customer now has a scalable, efficient inventory process preventing millions of dollars of shrink
RGIS targeted audits of the drugs with top sales and highest shrink
RGIS introduced new check points and custom reporting
Tighter inventory time frame eliminated cut-off issues
Financial reporting abilities were improved
Conclusion
By outsourcing the care home medication inventory count to RGIS, the provider gained a scalable and efficient process that reduced shrink, introduced targeted audits and improved checkpoints, eliminated cut-off issues, and delivered stronger, more accurate financial reporting.
