Admit with Ease: No Handoffs, Just Care-Ready Teams. Smoother Moves for Residents and Staff
The referral arrives just after morning rounds. Your admissions coordinator scans the packet, circles a few open questions, and walks it down the hall to the Director of Nursing. The DON is knee-deep in wound rounds and sets the folder on a growing stack of physician orders. By lunch the family is calling for an update, the coordinator is checking voicemail for a reply, and the packet—now marked up with sticky notes—has already made three trips across the building without a single decision.
This is the classic decision by committee dance: copy the packet, pass it on, leave another message, hope someone finds the oxygen order on page 78 before the resident shows up. When the handoffs pile up, even a small miss can snowball. The oxygen tank and bariatric bed aren’t in the room at arrival—cue a frustrated family who wonders if the whole facility is that disorganized. Or the kitchen plates a regular diet instead of purée because the dietary note never reached them in time—now a simple oversight becomes a choking risk.
“The hand-offs used to burn half my shift. With Lumberjack, I can clear a referral and spend more time ensuring a great admission experience for our residents and families.” — Clinical Liaison, Lumberjack Early Preview
From Phone Tag to One-Tap Teamwork
Lumberjack collapses the relay race into a single, shared workspace. The system ingests the packet, highlights every equipment need, diet order, payer quirk, and isolation precaution—then lets the admissions nurse approve or decline, all within a single guided conversation. No copies, no hallway handoffs, no margin notes for someone else to decipher.
The moment that decision is made, it’s pushed as an instant update to whoever needs to know unit managers, kitchen, therapy, respiratory, social services. Instead of ad hoc emails or sticky note alerts, each department sees the same real-time summary and can prep long before the resident rolls through the door.
Empower the Coordinator, Free the Floor
When all the insight lives in one place, your coordinator becomes the hero of census. She no longer waits for three people to weigh in—she refers to Lumberjack for the tough questions, verifies the answers, and locks in the bed. That alone can reclaim 45–60 minutes per referral, but the bigger win is intangible: confidence. Staff stay focused on care because the paperwork isn’t bouncing back in their face. Families feel welcomed, not shuffled, because everything they need is ready on arrival.
And if you’re wondering whether AI feels impersonal, remember: it never takes a coffee break, never ducks into a patient room, and never loses a sticky note. It simply hands your team the facts, so they decide what compassionate care looks like.