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The Umbrella Solutions blog is where we share thoughts on technology and issues impacting the aged care community. Find out about the future of aged care

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Who in your team needs to be involved when an unannounced audit happens?

This year the Aged Care Quality and Safety Commission is aiming to significantly increase the number of unannounced audits. With the ABC reporting that audits will increase […]

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Digital Innovation: Seniors Are Ready – How About You?

Another great recent article from Inside Ageing: “Coordinated efforts required to boost digital transformation in aged care“ discusses how they are largely […]

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Federal Budget 2021- Misses the Mark or a Marked Opportunity to Improve?

While seemingly old news already, the budget 2021 marks an additional investment into the Aged Care sector of around $18 billion over 5 years.

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Was it poor governance that caused you to fail the audit?

Aged Care Quality providers receive non-compliance notices or sanctions for a myriad of reasons. But speak to the consultants who […]

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Did you know you were leaking

A lot of the service providers within the community aged care space in Australia are not-for-profit, so this may sound […]

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Coverage Features and Fixes Autumn 2021

Making Coverage even better, again While everyone has been waiting for the Royal Commission recommendations, we’ve released a raft of […]

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Take the stress out of Aged Care Quality Audits

An Assessment Team has just arrived to conduct an unannounced site audit. You know you are doing the right thing. […]

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Aligned Whitepaper: Vendors and the Aged Care Quality Standards

Explore why the Aged Care Quality Standards are important for vendors and see how Aligned can help you engage with providers.

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Aged Care Tender Misses the Mark

Whilst it’s heartening that the Government is looking for assistance to increase the velocity and volume of quality assessments within our provider network, it has once again missed an opportunity for the Commission to leverage technology to scale their efforts.

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Better Together: Umbrella and CDCS partner up for the Aged Care Quality Standards

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