carehome.co.uk announces partnership with CoolCare for its Top 20 care home awards

The UK’s leading reviews site for care homes has announced it is partnering with care home management software company CoolCare for this year’s Top 20 care home awards.

Every year care home residents and their families name the UK’s top care homes. This is done by carehome.co.uk compiling thousands of reviews of care homes looking at elements such as the quality of care, facilities, overall standard, staff, activities as well as its value for money.

Choosing a care home is very hard in normal times but it has now been made even harder in the current pandemic due to care homes shutting their doors to all but essential visitors. So these reviews are even more invaluable in giving people an insight into what a care home is really like.

In order to run the awards, carehome.co.uk is partnering with CoolCare, which produces care home management software, that can be used for all core aspects of care home business admin. CoolCare offers crucial help with occupancy management, time and attendance as well as rostering and invoicing.

Simon Potter, sales director for carehome.co.uk said: “We are very happy to be working alongside CoolCare for the carehome.co.uk 2020 Top 20 Care Home Awards. This is our seventh year running the awards and they grow in popularity each year; this is without doubt because they are exclusively based on the opinions of care home residents and their friends or family. Being able to display an award to care seekers highlights that the highest possible standards of care are being provided.

“For us, working with Fiona and the team at CoolCare seemed a perfect fit due to their longevity in helping the sector; providing software which enables them to increase efficiencies and improve working practices during a time when care homes face so many challenges. It’s great to have them on board!”

Fiona Hale, managing director of CoolCare, added: “The carehome.co.uk awards are the pinnacle of care home accolades as they represent the views of those living and visiting care homes. The reputational value this brings to care homes is super important for spreading the word about their home and keeping their occupancy levels high.

"That’s why CoolCare is delighted to be supporting these awards through our sponsorship. We see first-hand through our care home management software the benefits that good carehome.co.uk reviews have in generating enquiries and keeping homes full. As passionate advocates of efficient and effective care home management, this partnership with carehome.co.uk is a perfect fit for our ethos of helping residential care businesses to boost their revenues.”

CoolCare is currently offering care homes in the UK free software to help their head office staff access resident and staff records remotely during the coronavirus pandemic.

The software will be provided for free for at least three months and is available for care homes which do not currently have software provision. CoolCare’s offer is a basic version of the CoolCare4 system. It includes essential elements of its system and support services, which will enable an operator to continue core business functions. Features include enquiry or occupancy management, resident invoicing and staff records to monitor training, appraisal and relevant pre-start checks. The more advanced features of the software such as T&A and rostering, for example, are excluded.

If you want to take up the free care home management software for your organisation click here or email info@coolcare4.co.uk for further information. To see the Top 20 care homes for each region as well as the Top 20 care home groups in the UK, click here.

The carehome.co.uk Top 20 Care Home Awards 2020 are based on over 92,000 reviews received from residents and their family and friends between 28 February 2018 and 28 February 2020.

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