01.04.2009

Senior Living Facility Casa de las Campanas - proxSafe maxx

The Golden Years - Senior Living Facility has Mastered Key Management

When Southern California senior living facility Casa de las Campanas needed to implement an effective method for managing keys, officials asked Deister Electronics to help them design a proxSafe electronic key management system. The system had to be secure, efficient and reliable. With an average population of 570 residents, ranging across all levels of care, the facility's management feels a strong sense of responsibility to their clients. Like many healthcare and senior care facilities, Casa de las Campanas was cognizant of the need for greater efficiency and security required in today's fast-paced world. They recognized the increased cost of manning key stations and log books, replacing lost keys and cylinders, and tracking down misplaced keys. Security also is a primary concern as residents, patients and families expect utmost safety when selecting a long-term care facility. Casa needed a system that was scalable, easy to use and networkable. Management wanted an electronic key management system that would grant them access to certain keys on a temporary basis. Management at Casa de las Campanas carefully vetted several key control products, including the proxSafe key management system by Deister Electronics USA Inc., of Manassas, Va. Officials selected the proxSafe system based on Casa's needs but also because of Deister's experience with RFID technologies for security and logistics. The proxSafe system provided a networkable system with Web-based software, as well as maintenance-free RFID key tags. Casa's management had researched the company's history and felt very confident in the level and longevity of technical support available.