Skilled Nursing Facilities

External Facilities

External Facilities are used to capture descriptions of other local businesses which you may want to associate with your residents. A primary example is your default Pharmacy, although you can set up hospitals, other LTC facilities, Transportation options, Churches and so on as well.

Like "Medical Professionals", they can be created as an inventory, and associated to a resident when/if necessary.

  1. While in the ADMIN module, depending on the Security access you have you may (or may not) be able to see & select "SETUP" from the menu items. (If you do not see it listed as an option, you do not have Security access to perform Set Up functions). See your Security Administrator.

  2. When you select SETUP are taken to the set up options of the ADMIN module. The first section is ORGANIZATION SETUP. This contains numerous areas which need to be addressed whether or not you are a Financial or Clinical facility.

  3. Select External Facilities.

  4. The initial view is of "Hot list" items which represent the ones you most often want to select. Alternatively, you can select "All Facilities" to show all your defined "External Facilities". Under either view, NEW allows you to create a new item for the list. Note that the EDIT or DELETE options are only visible to you when using the All Facilities selection.

  • The most common use of External Facilities is to create a default Pharmacy, with details, and have it default to become the default pharmacy for all residents using the ASSIGN option.

  • The default initially shows the "Hot list Items". If you have very few External Facilities, ensure you define them to be on your Hot list so everything appears on this default presentation.

  • You must have a security role with appropriate rights to see Set Up on the menu. If you don't see Set Up you don't have access to it. See your local Security Administrator. The delivered Admin Setup role provides this access.