Interactive wireless life safety communications system

A method for coordinating caregiver responses to alert events in an assisted care facility, the method comprising the steps of:

• generating an alarm signal upon detection of the alert event by a resident life safety device associated with one of a specific location within the assisted care facility and a specific resident of the assisted care facility;
• transmitting the alarm signal from the resident life safety device to a central coordination server, the resident life safety device being connected to the central coordination server over a first communications network;
• generating an alarm notification on the central coordination server in response to a receipt of the alarm signal;
• transmitting the alarm notification to a plurality of caregiver communications devices, each of the plurality of caregiver communications devices associated with one of a plurality of caregiver identities, over a second communications network different from the first communications network;
• receiving a caregiver input on each of the plurality of the caregiver communications devices, the caregiver input corresponding to an action status response corresponding to one of a plurality of selectable responses to the alarm notification and including an identification of a responding caregiver, the plurality of selectable responses including a selectable response indicating that the responding caregiver is responding to the alarm condition and a selectable response indicating that the responding caregiver is not responding to the alarm condition;
• transmitting the action status response to the central coordination server over the second communications network;
• in response to a selection of the selectable response corresponding to the action status response indicating that the responding caregiver is responding to the alarm condition, updating all of the plurality of caregiver communications devices associated with the second communications network to indicate that the responding caregiver is responding to the alarm condition while leaving the alarm notification active on all of the plurality of caregiver communications devices;
• in response to a selection of the selectable response corresponding to the action status response indicating that the responding caregiver is not responding to the alarm condition, updating all of the plurality of caregiver communications devices associated with the second communications network to indicate that the responding caregiver is not responding to the alarm condition while leaving the alarm notification active on all of the plurality of caregiver communications devices;
• upon the alarm condition being cleared at the resident life safety device, updating all of the plurality of caregiver communications devices to indicate that the alarm condition is cleared;
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• recording the received action status response in association with the identification of the responding caregiver and the alarm notification to which the received action status response pertains.

A method for coordinating caregiver responses to alert events in an assisted care facility, the method comprising the steps of:

• receiving on the central coordination server an alarm signal from a resident life safety device associated with one of a specific location within the assisted care facility and a specific resident of the assisted care facility, the alarm signal corresponding to the alert event as detected by the resident life safety device;
• generating an alarm notification on the central coordination server in response to the received alarm signal;
• transmitting the alarm notification to a plurality of caregiver communications devices, each of the plurality of caregiver communications devices associated with a specific caregiver identity;
• receiving an action status response from a first one of the plurality of caregiver communications device, the action status response corresponding to one of a plurality of selectable responses by a caregiver to the transmitted alarm notification and including an identification of the caregiver providing the action status response, the plurality of selectable responses including a selectable response indicating that the responding caregiver is responding to the alarm condition and a selectable response indicating that the responding caregiver is not responding to the alarm condition;
• in response to a selection of the selectable response corresponding to the action status response indicating that the responding caregiver is responding to the alarm condition, updating all of the plurality of caregiver communications devices to indicate that the responding caregiver is responding to the alarm condition while leaving the alarm notification active on all of the plurality of caregiver communications devices;
• in response to a selection of the selectable response corresponding to the action status response indicating that the responding caregiver is not responding to the alarm condition, updating all of the plurality of caregiver communications devices to indicate that the responding caregiver is not responding to the alarm condition while leaving the alarm notification active on all of the plurality of caregiver communications devices;
• upon the alarm condition being cleared at the resident life safety device, updating all of the plurality of caregiver communications devices to indicate that the alarm condition is cleared;
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• recording the received action status response in association with the identification of the responding caregiver and the alarm notification to which the received action status response pertains.