AxisCare Home Care Software vs. Sling

Approximately, 3 years ago our business was using Excel spreadsheets and a cell phone to communicate to the caregivers about available visits as well as tracking who they are assigned to. This process took most of my 9 hour work day. With AxisCare Home Care Software having the Real Time View, Open Visits Requests Report, the Open Visit Note, and the Chat feature, I am able to do in 2 hours what it took 7 hours before. I feel I am more efficient, communicate better, and feel better knowing the client does have someone assigned to his or her visit.

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Sling has been our best option for communication and scheduling. We looked into OnShift and other scheduling systems that aren't free. Sling has been our best option. Our schedule is a beast and Sling has made my job much easier and for our on-call staff as well. You can change the color of positions (which we love) and we love to use green for bonus money shifts!

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• Reports. I love that you can add the columns you need for each report.
• Documents. I love being able to store all documents in our clients charts and absolutely love the "Show Expired" check box that was added, that has been very helpful.
• Customization. I love that you can add custom fields and reports include these custom fields. I love being able to set the banner color for each office which is coordinated to my spreadsheets. I love the customization options in the Calendar tab, just all customization options so that everyone can customize the website / portal however they need or want to so it works best for them.
• Forms. This might fall under customization, but I absolutely love forms can be created, completed, and shared.

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• Desktop application for more detailed assignment of shifts.
• Simple App for the workforce deployment that shows shifts and offers communication.
• Ability for users to schedule themselves off work.

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• Would like to see invoicing and billing work better together and not separated
• TCM billing for AR is a high need
• Billing AR Medicaid and rounding units and leaving small balances or overpaid balances would like to see resolved
• Tasks tied to client accounts
• Select multiple days at a time to remove all at once from the calendar

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• Bring back the forever repeating shifts, they currently only repeat for 1 year so I have to go through every shift once a year & reset them.
• Our staff liked when they had birthday notifications for staff.
• Wish there was a way for admins to be managers of managers. What I mean by that is when management requests time off I do not get a notification so they have to let me know separately.

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AxisCare Home Care Software has a lot of features that are helpful in the roles we play at [...] Arkansas. The support is fantastic! I do wish there were more features for users to store documents for themselves such as weekly task lists and monitoring forms that they would normally email to me or upload to Google Drive for storage. This however isn't something that would cause our company to switch software programs.

Once use to the system Axis Care is fairly easy to navigate and is a pretty clean system. I wish the main profile page for clients and caregivers were laid out more similarly (Ex: Classes for a caregiver are on the main profile page but the classes for clients are hiding under their billing tab. Another example is there's a Notes tab for clients but everything in that tab for a caregiver is located on their profile page) It would make it easier for new user training and knowledge retention if they were located in the same spots

We had no issues with the availability of the system, it has been reliable so far, the only issues were geo location at some point due to staff being in rural areas, geo location will fail to pick up.

Some of the pages load slowly and there's issues with the downloads

They have been incredibly helpful and willing to assist with every situation we have encountered. There have been some instances where they were unsure of what the issue we were experiencing was or how to fix it. They attempted though and were very responsive.

The training was easy to implement and understand. We had no issues completing all the training offered by the Axis staff. They were all very knowledgeable about the product and walked us through every step until the go-live day. We did the hand-holding until the end, our staff was very pleased with the patience of our trainers and thankful for their understanding, helping to be sure we were well-trained and ready for our go-live date. We are grateful. Thanks again to the trainers.

I would give this training a high rating because it was thorough and easy to understand. The trainers were detailed and very helpful throughout the transition process. They promptly addressed any concerns or issues, making it simple to set up the new Axis system and app. The support received when we encountered minor issues was excellent as well; they worked with us until everything was functioning properly. Overall, the experience was smooth and effective, leading to a successful implementation of the system.

The number one reason we switched from Wellsky to AxisCare simply came down to one thing, vendor interaction. We found that it was difficult to reach out to and hear back from Wellsky's support during our last few months with them. From our exploratory call, to our onboarding, to now being 6 months into our time with AxisCare; we have always heard from AxisCare's support team in a timely manner and are very satisfied with their continual updates to their software.

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(it has been 3+ years since I evaluated other programs, I don't recall the names)

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The system offered what we needed.

• Accountability - can actually see who is doing what (or not doing what)
• Efficiency - ability to enter bonuses and notes on each shift makes payroll much easier
• Collections efforts - easily see who is behind on payments and what we need to bill for still. We have re-cooped $97k in missing receivables
• Survey ease - we've had 1 survey since starting AxisCare and the process was 100x easier and OHA & the branch ED said it was the easiest survey they had gone through

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• I spend 50% less time scheduling my employees
• My employees are 100% happier
• We use the free version, so we save 100% of cost!

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