Case Study: Resident Duress Call Centre Transition

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Managing the transition of smart link duress systems for residents. 

Forward Logic successfully manage a project to transition smart link duress systems from old processes and providers to new, with no interruption to service.

The Challenge and Objective

In July 2019, our aged care client identified opportunities to improve the consistency, reliability, and quality of its practices around smart link medi alert systems.

The Solution

The dialler/panel and pendant medi alert systems provide a duress alert functionality for all residents and when activated the duress signal is sent via SMS to designated mobile phones, manned by Estate staff or security company. Our aged care client completed a thorough assessment of call centre duress monitoring services and selected Tunstall Healthcare as their provider for these services across all retirement estates.


The key objectives of the project were:


  • Transition all smart link diallers to the Tunstall Call Centre service prior to December 2019
  • Ensure all residents are informed of the new approach, its benefits, and how the changeover will affect them personally
  • Ensure minimal disruption to the residents
  • Capture resident data and ensure process for the ongoing management of this information

In a review of practices, our aged care client identified a need for a solution that:

  • Had KPIs and/or prescribed required standard response time for resident duress
  • Ensured persons answering or responding to the duress equipped were equipped with information regarding the resident they are responding to, and able to respond specifically to the need of the resident
  • Ensured persons answering the duress were trained in emergency response and trained to respond to events outside of their “day-to-day” role.

The Result

Forward Logic was engaged to manage the project to transition smart link duress systems from current processes and providers to Tunstall Healthcare by December 2019.

Working closely with the client and Tunstall Healthcare teams, Forward Logic ensured that the residents were engaged with the transition, informed of the benefits it would deliver to them personally, and that all residents were involved in testing post implementation, so they were confident and able to readily use the new services when needed.

Steps were taken to minimise any disruption to residents, and make sure that there was no interruption of services as part of the move. New processes were defined and implemented, enabling sustainable, reliable, consistent, high quality care provided by a trained and dedicated team.

The project was also able to identify a range of additional steps for our client to explore, to further improve the services it provides to its residents.



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