MatrixCare vs. Yardi Senior Living

MatrixCare is well suited for the size of this company and its budget. The support is awesome, very professional, polite and knows what they're doing. It is also well suited for my company based on the type of healthcare, LTC, and rehab. Although I don't use the MDS features, I hear my colleagues say how much they like using them. The providers like that they are able to create their progress notes right into Matrix and I like that too because there are no paper notes needing to scan. The providers also find the dashboard very helpful for knowing what orders need to be signed and which patients are due for visits. I am unaware of any scenarios where MatrixCare is not well suited for my company, as far as my role.

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Any senior living/retirement home would likely benefit by using Yardi Senior Living suite. The fact that it handles the needs of almost the entire business makes it a very convenient platform for operating retirement residences.

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• Keeps everything about the residents in one place and is user friendly.
• We use the notes section so if more than one person is working on something with a resident's file we know what someone else has done as well.
• Billing and posting payments are a breeze.

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• Accounting.
• Billing.
• Electronic health records.

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• the MDS section doesn't always register that a section has been signed and completed, showing up on the dashboard as still needing to be done.
• The MDS section will state you're still "in" someone's MDS when you're complete. There have been multiple times where I've had to fully log out of Matrix to be "logged out" of someone's MDS even though I had signed.

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• Yardi does have a tendency to release new features a bit early. I understand the drive to deliver what customers are asking for, but in some cases, further testing before release would be beneficial.
• Yardi used to allow clients to have access to a remote desktop, which came in very handy to maintain the environment and develop new reports. They replaced this with web based tools that don't work as well.
• Yardi does not handle any time sheet or payroll functions. It's the main shortcoming for our needs. As a result we have leveraged other software for this.

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I have not had any problems with MatrixCare; however, I do not use the whole system and have not had to call MatrixCare or have support from them so I'm not the best to comment on that.

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Yardi Senior Living support is good for the most part. They respond to most issues quickly, but sometimes problems can drag out.

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MatrixCare is more updated, when we used our old program is was stuck in the past and was built when we were a much smaller company. MatrixCare is a one-stop-shop so that is why we picked it. There was another company we looked at but we didn't go with it because of the layout of the program.

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I haven't used it PointClickCare directly, but I'm told by others in the industry that it's more suited to Long Term Care. Yardi Senior Living works better for retirement residences with assisted and independent living.

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• Having gone from paper charting it has reduced paper waste and streamlined delivery of nursing services/documentation.
• It has allowed us to track and share documents across many users at one time.
• The unreliability has been challenging for our team with several outages resulting in delay of care.

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• Yardi license costs are reasonable for the functionality of the software.
• There can be a steep learning curve for many Yardi products.
• Upgrades tend to generate a lot of end user issues despite extensive testing.

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