Case Study

Case Study

Eskaton Senior Living achieves immediate reductions in overtime while improving proactive care and quality of life for residents with Sync Labs

Eskaton Senior Living achieves immediate reductions in overtime while improving proactive care and quality of life for residents with Sync Labs

34%

34%

Increase In Proactive Care Interventions

Increase In Proactive Care

13%

Increase In 1:1 Time With Residents

Increase In 1:1 Time With Residents

150

Staff Hours Saved Per Week On Caregiving and Coordination

Less Paperwork, More Caring.

Less Paperwork, More Caring.

Assisted Living and Memory care teams rely on fast, accurate information to deliver safe and consistent care. Before Sync Labs, staff at Eskaton Gold River depended on standard systems amongst senior living communities — binders, EHR documentation, emails, and verbal huddles ("shift to shift") to understand resident needs. Information was fragmented across systems, and important context often surfaced late. Experienced caregivers were often pulled away from residents to help orient others, contributing to overtime and burnout.

Sync Labs deployed In-Sync, a real time digital status board designed specifically for senior care workflows. Instead of flipping through binders or relying on long verbal handoffs, staff begin each shift with a shared view of resident updates, risks, preferences, and priorities.

The system integrates with EHRs like Matrix Care to bring together shift notes, resident summaries, and emerging trends into one place, making critical information immediately accessible. By surfacing patterns across shifts and pairing them with recommended interventions, Sync Labs helps teams move from reactive care to earlier, more informed responses.

"Staff are able to orient more quickly, prioritize care tasks more efficiently, and transition between shifts with greater clarity, and reducing unnecessary overtime."

- Alfredo Cruz, Executive Director Eskaton Gold River

"Staff are able to orient more quickly, prioritize care tasks more efficiently, and transition between shifts with greater clarity, and reducing unnecessary overtime."

- Alfredo Cruz, Executive Director Eskaton Gold River

Keeping Care Teams In Sync

Keeping Care Teams In Sync

Within just two weeks of using the system, staff reported significant improvements in communication, efficiency, and confidence at shift start.

Perceived information availability increased by 27 percent, while communication quality improved by 47 percent compared to prior tools like binders, EHR documentation, and verbal huddles. Staff also reported a 73 percent reduction in the feeling of “walking in blind” at the start of a shift.

Operational efficiency gains were most pronounced during handoffs. Average handoff time dropped from 45.6 minutes to 12.9 minutes, a 72 percent reduction, saving approximately 33 minutes per shift per staff member. Onboarding workload also decreased substantially, with staff reporting a 62 percent reduction in effort required to bring new or rotating caregivers up to speed.

Care staff noted that the difference was especially clear when moving between assisted living and memory care. As one RMA explained, “Handoffs are faster, critical information is right there, and the care recommendations have been extremely helpful.”

"Care interventions allow us to focus on proactive care. Seeing trends on eating, emotions, but also how this connects with other elements of the resident as a person. It gives us a whole picture view, and most importantly, what best ways we can support."

- Carmen Humphreys, Memory Care Director Eskaton Gold River

"Care interventions allow us to focus on proactive care. Seeing trends on eating, emotions, but also how this connects with other elements of the resident as a person. It gives us a whole picture view, and most importantly, what best ways we can support."

- Carmen Humphreys, Memory Care Director Eskaton Gold River

Proactive and Personalized Care

Proactive and Personalized Care

Beyond efficiency gains, Sync Labs supported earlier and more consistent care interventions. 94% of recommended care interventions were implemented. These care interventions are supported by Sync Labs' proprietary LLM and Clinical Layer. By synthesizing observations across shifts, the platform highlights emerging behavioral and clinical trends such as changes in agitation, sleep, or supervision needs. This allows staff to recognize changes sooner and adjust care plans before issues escalate.

Personalization is reinforced through easy access to resident preferences, routines, and background information. This has been especially valuable for new staff, who can learn about residents more quickly and deliver more consistent care from day one. As one caregiver shared, “Learning about new residents is much better now. Seeing what they like, any recent changes, keeps us giving consistent, well-informed care."

About Sync Labs

About Sync Labs

Sync Labs is a Penn Medicine and University of Pennsylvania backed technology company building a copilot for caregiving. In-Sync replaces binders, shift reports, and long handoffs with a real time digital status board that keeps care teams aligned across residents and shifts. By transforming existing data into clear, actionable insight, Sync Labs helps senior care teams reduce burnout, improve communication, and spend more time caring for people.

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