Advanced Data Solutions is pleased to announce the release of Senior Care Manager, a software program to aid in the management of nursing homes, adult homes or similar facilities.  Senior Care Manager addresses the needs of the long term care industry with an easy-to-use, integrated, and comprehensive program.  Senior Care Manager helps long term care managers track and use information about each resident. To assist them with this Senior Care Manger has automated the important processes of admitting new residents, issuing billing invoices, and receiving payments plus many other important aspects in management of these facilities.

Senior Care Manager will be normally be priced at $395.  An introductory offer of $295, a savings of $100, is good though August 31, 1998.  This make it very economical to the small facilities with 10 to 50 beds.  Even at it's normal price Senior Care Manager is substantially less than it's competitors.

Designed specifically for the long term care industry, the use of Senior Care Manager will facilitate the long term facility's administrative tasks.  As an administrative tool it automates all processes from maintaining a Waiting List through final Discharge.  The modules include admission, financial, incident reporting and reports.

The admission module tracks nearly 100 items about each resident - personal items, billing information, room, contacts (family members, power of attorney, insurance), providers (clergy, physician, and pharmacist), diet, vehicle, custom information (items specific to your organization) and others.  Editing of a resident's records is easily accessed by the our Find Resident screen.  Any resident can be located by entering only a couple characters of the person's last name.

The finance capabilities of Senior Care Manager include billing the resident for services or supplies furnished to them, receiving of payments from all sources, easily generated monthly statements that include payments, charges and anticipated government grants.  Managers can answer resident's questions easily by accessing billing and payment history, deposits, and supply and service charges.  Room rates and supply/services rates are easily changed.

The reporting module includes 28 predefined reports.  There are a series of financial reports - financial summary, billing and payment history for a resident, status of payments, bank deposits, room inventory, lists of supply and service rates.   Other reports include resident's lists by name or room number, provider lists, resident to hospital with medical information, waiting list, telephone list, emergency contacts, residents with vehicles, parking assignments, schedules (housekeeping, bathing and laundry), and more.

Senior Care Manager is easy to install and use.  It is menu driven and has an extensive help system available.  Throughout the program prompts are available for all menu options and data entry inputs.  There are many lookup codes that facilitate data entry all created with long term care facility in mind.  A manual with screens and diagrams is also available to help with easy to follow steps.  No training is required.

The minimum computer requirement is a IBM compatible computer with a CPU of 486 - 100 Mhz (Pentium 166 Mhz or better does provide better performance), 16 MB of RAM(33 MB is recommended), 10 MB of hard drive space, mouse, and any of the Windows products (3.x, 95, and 98).

Senior Care Manager is a comprehensive, integrated application.  Additional features include ability to schedule housekeeping, laundry and bathing times; reporting of  incident with residents or staff; resident vehicle and parking assignments; access to former resident information; and backup and restoration of datafiles.

Senior Care Manager is customizable to the rest home  facility.  An extensive setup module lets the manager structure the application to fit his/her existing operation.  It's easy and straight forward to establish a room inventory, add service and supplies provided, rate adjustment factors, and other appropriate lookup codes and databases.  Senior Care Manager includes 5 customizable fields where the manager can collect information specific to their facility which isn't included in the program..

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Additional information is available on our web page (www.ADS-software.com).  Check it for examples of screens or download our Help file to get a better understanding of our program.
 

We are pleased to announce the release of Membership Director.   Membership Director is a software program that will help all types of clubs and associations track information about their members.  Keeping track of members - making address changes,  preparing timely notif ication to the members that their dues is expiring, receiving dues payments, preparing lists and having labels ready are just some of the things that is essential for any organization and now with Membership Director this job will be much easier.

Membership Director is an administrative tool that is comprehensive yet it is simple to use.  Here are the tasks that Membership Director helps you with:
     Add new members quickly
     Easily finds members with a couple keystrokes to facilitate making member changes
     Easily records dues and contributions received
     Keeps track of committees
     Monitors attendance at meetings
     Records the interests of your members
     Remove members - individually or as of certain date
     Removed members are retained in an inactive file, their information is always available
     Provide analysis and informational reports (43 prepared reports available)
     Maintain an awards system
     Prints labels for all members, expiring members, committees, interests, and chapters
     Prints meeting notices, name tags, membership cards
     Prints a deposit slip summary of daily receipts to help in making the bank deposit slip

No training is needed to operate Membership Director.  It operates like you think it should.  Anyone familiar with Windows will have no problems.  It is menu driven and all menu options are augmented with helpful prompts.  Pressing F1 at any location will present a help screen that is applicable to the current screen.  A speed button bar is available to quickly activate the most common tasks - adding new members, editing members, receiving dues and contributions, and attendance.   Installation is a snap.

Most organizations have special needs or special ways to do things.  Membership Director can be customized to fit any organizations.  It accepts an unlimited number of membership categories.   It is easy to maintain numerous committees, member interests, types of contributions and chapters.  In addition there are five fields that can be modified to track things not tracked by Membership Director.

Forty-three prepared reports cover just about anything that could be desired - several ways to print membership lists; a membership summary, financial summaries for the month or a given period, dues notice to member, list of members that will expire prior to given date, renewal expectations for next year, lists of officers, list of members with similar interest, former member list, list of all codes used, attendance reports, analytical reports (sex/age distribution, state and length of membership), and much more.

Check out our website (www.ads-software.com/mem_dir.htm) for examples of our program
screens, additional information or to download an evaluation/demo copy (limited to 20
records).

Membership Director is being offered at only $75 via our website.  This Internet Special is a 20% savings off the regular price of $95.  This offer only lasts till December 31, 1998.   Discounts are available for volume purchases.
 

Software to aid management of charities and nonprofit associations

(Luray, Va , April 2, 1999) Small to medium sized charities serving local or regional areas will benefit from a new management software program, Charity Director.  A full-featured management program, Charity Director, provides charity managers with functions that address the various objectives of the charity - client management, fund raising, personnel management, volunteer management and financial accounting.  While comprehensive and feature packed, it is easy to use and even the smallest charity will find the price affordable.

Developed by Advanced Data Solutions, Charity Director is designed to integrate the five functions into one application.  It features a navigation screen that accesses the five modules with two keystrokes or mouse clicks.  Each module easily gathers extensive amounts of data that can be accessed for editing or reporting.  More than 57 reports have been prepared to provide managers the data in an organized and easily understood manner.  In addition, there are more than a dozen different ways to print mailing labels.

Key Product Features include:
   Client Management
   Gathers basic data about the client, their employment, income & expenses, family size
   Provides means to evaluate the client's request for emergency assistance
   Tracks assistance provided so the approved amounts are not exceeded
   Flags clients that have been denied assistance
 
   Gift/Donor Management
   Collects data about the donor and actual donation
   Identifies donors that belong to organizations that match donations
   Summarize multiple fund-raising campaigns
 
   Personnel Management including volunteers
   Provides human resource capability
   Identifies and tracks volunteer skills
   Scheduling volunteers using skills/duties, day & times available
 
   Volunteer Group Management
   Identify projects - skills needed, housing needs
   Collect information from organizations and groups
   Schedule groups based upon group skills, size and housing needs
   Provides mechanism for following up on group actions
 
   Finance Management
   Track income and expenses
   Includes the assistance granted to clients and donations received
   Unlimited accounts, donation types
 
   All Modules
   ‘Navigation Screen' and data entry screens have intuitive interface that makes it easy-to-use
   All modules have the Find tool that easily accesses the data in a couple keystrokes
   Extensive context sensitive help available at all times and locations
   User customized fields allow the local charities the flexibility they need

Each module is comprehensive, has extensive online help and is easy to use.  The charity can anticipate being online after a short familiarization.
 

System Requirements:
Windows 3.x,95/98
Pentium 200 Mhz or better
32 MB RAM or better
Requires 10 MB of hard drive space.

Pricing:
A free evaluation copy is available to be downloaded from our website –>www.ads-software.com  The free evaluation copy is available to anyone and is limited in that only 10 clients, staff members/volunteers, volunteer groups and checks can be added.  Once the charity is satisfied that it meets their needs they can register the program for $149.95, a 25% savings off the regular price of $199.95.  This price makes it affordable for all charities.  However, it is necessary to act quickly as this special will only last until September 30, 1999.  Upon registering, a registration key will be provided to remove the 10 record limitation.  No add-ons are required.

Technical support via telephone is provided free for 30 days.  Lifetime support is available by email.  Maintenance updates are free and will be available periodically.

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CONTACT: Larry L. Hakel (540)743-4910
President Advanced Data Solutions
P.O. Box 714, Luray VA 22835
Email: adv_data@shentel.net
http://www.ads-software.com

FOR EVALUATION COPY:
Download it from www.ads-software.com/char_dir.htm