Tyler Fire Alarm provides many services for senior facilities, nursing facilities and retirement communities.
Families: Are your loved ones safe?
Having a loved one in a senior center can be stressful and might make people feel helpless. Play a role to increase the safety of your loved one. Below are a few things to consider when either choosing or checking on someone already in a senior center.
- Make sure that paper and other storage items do not block doors or hallways needed for escape. Is the building well maintained?.
- Is there is an evacuation plan in place that involves the staff? Is practiced regularly?
- Are there safety systems in place such as alternative exits?
- What is the staff-to-patient ratio? During the day and especially at night or on weekends and holidays? Is adequate staff available to carry out an escape plan if there is a fire?
- Are there guidelines for people who smoke such as a separate room or staff supervision?
Senior Center Staff: Planning and practicing fire safety
Most people think the danger from fire is the flames, however, it is the smoke that can travel quickly to areas far from the fire. It is important to realize that people living in senior centers may not be able to evacuate because of mobility or other disabilities. Proper planning, training, and practice of all staff are essential in order to provide for the safety of residents. It is important for staff to know that patient safety is their number one priority.
Adequate planning
- Every facility should have written fire procedures that are understood and practiced by all staff. Staff should be responsible for knowing and carrying out their part of the plan. That includes doctors, nursing staff, kitchen staff, maintenance, volunteers, and others.
- Response procedures should be practiced regularly
- There should be a clear “code word” agreed upon beforehand for the facility to alert other staff in case of fire.
Quick response
- Call out the code to alert staff.
- Activate the fire alarm.
- Evacuate everyone in immediate danger.
- Close doors to contain smoke and fire.
- Once the fire is contained to the room of origin behind closed doors, never reopen the door or reenter the room to extinguish the fire.
- Close all doors to patient rooms.
- In evacuating, make sure no patient is left behind.
Senior Living Facilities
Senior living facilities must address challenges that extend beyond those faced by other businesses. Tyler Fire Alarm understands these challenges. We work to ensure that you get the fire, security and life-safety in your facility needs to protect patients and staff while keeping costs down. Tyler Fire uses product lines that are specially designed to meet the operational needs and code requirements of independent and skilled nursing facilities, memory care and assisted living.
- Nurse Calls Systems
- Wander Guard – Wandering Patient System
- Silent Knight – Fire Alarm Systems
- Firelite – Fire Alarm Systems
- Jeron – Nurse Call Systems
- Acutech – Wandering Patient System
Do you need a new area of a refuge system for a nursing home or a nurse call system for an assisted living facility? Tyler Fire Alarm is here for you.
Tyler Fire Alarm designs, sells, installs and services access control, clocks, E-Call system, fire alarms, intercoms, areas of refuge, asset/patient/staff tracking, A/V systems, CATV, CCTV, nurse calls, public addresses and security for senior housing facilities including assisted living facilities and nursing homes.
Senior Housing Systems
- Access Control
- Public Address
- Security CCTV (Cameras)
- Clocks
- E-Call System Area of Refuge
- Asset, Patient, Staff Tracking
- A/V Systems
- CATV
- Fire Alarm
- Nurse Call
Solutions To Safeguard Senior Living Facilities:
- Reliable wander prevention systems
- Fire, security and life-safety systems and services
- Personnel and asset location allows you to instantly locate tagged monitors, wheelchairs, sensitive files and documents
- Reduce operating challenges associated with maintaining your fire and life safety documentation
- Answer patient and staff calls quickly and respond from anywhere in the facility
Dementia Wandering – Alzheimer’s Wander Safety Products
Wandering is the single most critical worry for a senior care facility. People who suffer with Alzheimer’s, dementia or memory loss have a tendency to wander. Without warning, they may start to wander into forbidden or dangerous areas and locked doors may make a wandering situation even worse.
WanderGuard
All-in-one solution
WanderGuard BLUE is the only system you will ever need to manage elopement risk. Not only does it offer built-in UL 294 access control, but it integrates seamlessly with the Arial platform for advanced alerting and reporting. Whether you need to protect one door or an entire campus, it’s an affordable and scalable solution that grows with you.
Peace of mind
Above all, WanderGuard BLUE delivers peace of mind to caregivers and family from the knowledge that each resident is individually protected with maximum freedom.