Preventable hospitalizations are a persistent challenge in long-term care facilities, often stemming from undetected early signs of serious conditions like sepsis, COPD or heart failure.

Glens Falls Center for Nursing and Rehabilitation, a local care center that is part of Centers Health Care, a network of skilled nursing, rehabilitation and senior care facilities across the Northeast, is addressing this issue head-on with the adoption of a remote-monitoring program that uses AI to monitor and predict health declines in residents.

The Circadia platform, which was officially launched at Glens Falls Center earlier this month, is the world’s first FDA-cleared contactless patient monitoring platform. The mobile platform uses sensors to track residents’ vital signs, sleep patterns and movements in real time. This allows staff to detect early signs of health issues, such as respiratory changes or increased falls, before they become emergencies. This proactive approach has been shown to reduce hospitalizations by up to 30% in facilities that use the technology.