Access Control for Assisted Living and Skilled Nursing Facilities
Restrict medication rooms, memory care secured units, and staff-only areas to authorized personnel only, and know exactly who entered and when.
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Restrict What Needs Restricting
Not every door in your facility needs to be open to everyone. Access control lets you decide exactly who can get into medication rooms, memory care secured units, and staff-only areas, and keeps that decision enforced even when no one's watching the door.
- Medication Rooms and Controlled Substance Storage: PIN, fob, or badge entry for your highest-liability area.
- Memory Care Secured Units: Credentials-only exit so residents can't wander out an unsecured door.
- Staff-Only Areas and Administrative Offices: Keep back-office and staff spaces separate from resident areas.
- After-Hours Entry: Control who can get into the building when the front desk isn't staffed.
Elopement Prevention for Memory Care Units
Residents with dementia or cognitive decline are at risk of wandering into unsafe areas or out of the building entirely. Access control on secured memory care units means staff can move freely while residents cannot exit unassisted, and you get an alert the moment someone approaches an unsecured door.
- Credentials-Only Exit for Staff: Authorized staff move through secured units without setting off an alarm.
- Door Alerts on Approach: Get notified when a resident nears an unsecured exit, before they're outside.
- Camera Integration: Pair door events with footage for a complete picture of what happened and when.
Manage Access From Anywhere
Staff turnover happens, and regional directors managing multiple facilities shouldn't have to be on-site to issue a new badge or shut off access for someone who just left.
- Issue or Revoke Credentials Remotely: Add a new hire or cut off a departing employee's access from a phone or laptop.
- Cloud Management: Manage every door in your facility, or across multiple communities, from one dashboard.
An Audit Trail Built for CMS and State Surveys
When medication rooms and secured units are on access control, you get more than a locked door. You get a timestamped record of exactly who accessed those areas and when, documentation that matters when a CMS or state surveyor starts asking questions.
- Full Access Logs: See every entry to your medication room or secured unit, by name and time.
- Survey-Ready Documentation: Show a surveyor exactly who entered which room and when, instead of guessing after the fact.
Where Facilities Use It Most
Practical use cases we build access control around every day:
- Medication Room: Locked and logged, nursing staff only.
- Memory Care Secured Unit: Credentials-only exit, residents can't wander out unassisted.
- Controlled Substance Storage: Restricted to authorized personnel with a full audit trail.
- Administrative Offices: Keep records and back-office areas separate from resident-facing spaces.
- After-Hours Entry: Let authorized overnight staff or an on-call nurse in without anyone propping a door.
Get Access Control Built for Your Facility
One system, restricting the right doors to the right people, with an audit trail you can actually rely on during a survey.