Most residents stop wearing the pendant. The ones who don't still can't be found fast enough.
Cora Alert is lightweight enough that residents actually keep it on — and when it's tapped, room-level location on a private network tells staff exactly where to go, not just which building to search.

THE PRESSURE IS REAL, AND IT'S COMING FROM EVERY DIRECTION

A fall or an elopement isn't just a bad day. It's a survey finding, a lawsuit, and a headline.

• CMS ties resident safety directly to Conditions of Participation for nursing homes, and state licensing bodies impose parallel requirements on assisted living — an accurate, timely response to a resident in distress isn't optional, it's surveyable.

• Elopement — a resident leaving the building or a secured unit unsupervised — is one of the most litigated failures in the industry. A resident who leaves unnoticed is a liability event regardless of outcome — and a door that opens without triggering an alert is the moment that failure starts.

• Falls are the leading cause of injury-related death for residents 65+, and a pendant sitting in a nightstand drawer — which happens far more than anyone likes to admit — helps no one.

• Families are asking sharper questions before move-in. "How fast do you actually respond, and how do you know where someone is" is now a standard tour question, not an unusual one.

• None of this is solved by a device that exists somewhere in the building but stays on a nightstand. It's solved by a device residents actually keep on, and a system precise enough to find them the moment they need it — inside the building, in the courtyard, or in the parking lot.
   

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THE PROBLEM
You already know where the pendant system breaks down.

• A pendant that looks medical ends up in a drawer. A device residents don't want to be seen wearing gets left behind — which means the one moment it's needed, it isn't there.

• Even the ones that get worn usually only know the building or person, not the room. A resident who falls in a bathroom, a stairwell, or a courtyard shows up as "on-site" on most PERS systems — staff still have to search, and every minute searching is a minute not responding.

• Landline-based systems are disappearing along with landlines. Cellular-based alternatives depend on carrier signal, which is exactly what tends to be weak in older construction, basements, and interior rooms.

• A system tied to Wi-Fi is a second point of failure. An access point outage or a network refresh should never be able to take down the one system a resident's life may depend on.

• Weekly pendant charging doesn't happen reliably. Devices die quietly, and nobody finds out until the moment it matters.​

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THE SOLUTION
One tap. Room-level location. No landline, no cellular plan, no dependency on your building Wi-Fi.
 

Cora Alert runs on a private LoRaWAN network — separate from your community's Wi-Fi, cellular, and phone infrastructure. One discreet tap on a lightweight wearable sends a silent alert with room-level location, so staff know exactly where to go, not just which building to search.
 

The same wearable works for a resident wandering into the courtyard, a fall in a bathroom, or a staff member facing a combative resident — one system, one private network, no dependency on carrier signal or building Wi-Fi.

WHAT MAKES THIS DIFFERENT

Every vendor says "fast response." Almost none can say "we know the room."
 

Every vendor in this category will tell you their button is fast and their location is precise. Fair — that part of the job is table stakes now. What almost none of them do is answer the question your Quality and Risk teams actually ask: can you show me the analysis?
 

• ​Room-level location, not building-level. A private gateway network resolves an alert to the specific room or zone — not "somewhere in the east wing" — cutting the search time that pendant and Wi-Fi-based systems can't avoid.

• 5+ year beacon battery life on the infrastructure side, with remote battery monitoring on wearables so a dying device is flagged before it fails, not discovered after.

• Works everywhere your care happens — interior rooms, basements, courtyards, and parking areas — because the network isn't limited by cellular carrier coverage or a building's Wi-Fi footprint.

• A resident wearable that doesn't look medical. Lightweight, discreet, IP67 water/shock resistant — solving the reason pendants end up in a drawer, which every call system's precision depends on someone actually wearing it in the first place.

• Your own private network, independent of your community's Wi-Fi and IT. No access point outage or network refresh can ever touch it.

• Elopement protection that doesn't rely on the resident. Door and window sensors on secured-unit exits alert staff automatically when a door opens — no tap, no tracking, no resident action required. For communities that want more, an optional geofenced wearable mode is available, configured with defined zones so staff are alerted the moment a resident crosses a boundary. That mode trades the standard ~1-year battery life for continuous location reporting — expect roughly a month between charges — so it's offered as a configurable option per unit, not a default.​

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BUILT FOR WHERE IT ACTUALLY HAPPENS
Coverage that matches how residents actually move through your community.
 

• Resident Rooms & Bathrooms — the single highest-frequency fall location, and the hardest place for a building-level system to pinpoint quickly.

• Memory Care & Secured Units — door and window sensors on secured-unit exits alert staff the moment a door opens, independent of anything the resident does. An optional geofenced wearable is available for communities that want per-resident exit tracking (see Section 4).

• Dining Halls & Common Areas — high-occupancy spaces where a fast, precise location matters most during a shift change or a busy meal service.

• Courtyards & Exterior Grounds — coverage doesn't stop at the building line; gateways extend to outdoor areas where cellular signal is often at its weakest.

• Parking Structures & Entry Points — the areas most associated with elopement risk and after-hours incidents.

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A FULL COMMUNITY SAFETY SYSTEM, NOT JUST A PENDANT

• Resident Alert Wearables — lightweight, IP67 water/shock resistant, discreet enough to wear daily. One tap activates a silent alert with room-level location.

• Staff Duress Wearables — the same one-tap activation for staff facing a combative resident or a personal emergency, on the same network.

• Managed BLE Beacons — installed throughout your community. 5+ year battery life. Remote battery monitoring means the system flags a low device before it ever goes dark.

• LoRaWAN Gateways — a private network, independent of your community's Wi-Fi, cellular, and IT — built to reach interior rooms, basements, and outdoor grounds that defeat Wi-Fi- and cellular-based systems.

• Alert Panel — a fixed display showing resident and staff location and alert status in real time for the nurses' station or front desk.

• Door & Window Sensors — the standard elopement safeguard. Alert staff the instant a secured-unit exit opens, independent of the resident. Same network as resident and staff alerting.

• Optional Geofenced Wearable Mode — per-resident exit-zone tracking for communities that want it. Trades the wearable's standard ~1-year battery life for continuous reporting (~1 month between charges); configured per unit, not enabled by default.
   

"WE ALREADY HAVE A SYSTEM FOR THIS"
Fair question. Here's the honest answer.
 

"Our residents already wear PERS pendants." Two separate problems, and Cora Alert addresses both. Pendants that look medical are the ones residents leave in a drawer — Cora Alert's wearable is lightweight and discreet enough to actually stay on. And for the ones that do get worn, most PERS systems resolve to the building, not the room, and depend on a landline or a cellular connection that's weakest exactly where residents spend the most time — interior rooms and basements. Cora Alert adds room-level location on a network built for the building, not borrowed from a carrier.
 

"We have call cords in every room." Call cords only help if the resident reaches one before or during a fall — which is exactly when many falls make that impossible. A worn wearable activates wherever the resident actually is, not wherever a cord happens to be mounted.
 

"Our Wi-Fi coverage is solid." It probably is, for what it was designed for. It wasn't designed to be the one system that can never go down — or to reach the courtyard, the parking lot, or the basement storage room the same way it reaches the nurses' station.
 

20 minutes. No sales pressure. Just answers.
We talk to executive directors, DONs, and life safety leaders every week. Most conversations come down to the same three things: does it really work in our oldest wing and our courtyard, what does it take for a resident to actually wear it, and how fast can staff find someone once an alert comes in.
 

We can answer all three in 20 minutes.

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