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Skilled Nursing News and Arrowfly announced winners of the inaugural Product of the Year Awards, covering nine skilled nursing technology categories. Subscribers selected the winners by voting, and exacare.ai’s Admissions Engine received the most votes overall and the MVP award.
Skilled Nursing News (SNN) and Arrowfly have announced the winners of their inaugural Product of the Year Awards, recognizing products and technologies serving skilled nursing providers across nine categories. The overall Most Valuable Product award went to exacare.ai’s Admissions Engine, which received the most votes from SNN subscribers.
The awards covered tools and services in areas including admissions and referral management, clinical care, electronic health records, quality and compliance, remote monitoring, revenue cycle management, facility operations, value-based care and workforce technology. Vendors submitted products for nomination earlier in the year; after the nominations were finalized, SNN subscribers voted for their choices in each category.
In the admissions, referral management and census growth category, Admissions Engine took gold, with Olio receiving silver and WellSky CarePort Referral Intake bronze. The Clinical Services, Physician, Wound Care and Specialty Care Providers category named Sensible Medical’s ReDS Pro System its gold winner. No silver or bronze award is listed for that category in the announcement.
Other gold winners include PointClickCare’s Advisor Suite for EHR and care coordination; InsPAC’s MockSurvey365 for quality, compliance and risk; WellSky SkySense AI for remote monitoring and advanced clinical technology; exacare.ai’s Managed Care Agent for revenue cycle management; Mediprocity’s SureCount Electronic Narcotic Book for skilled nursing operations; WellSky CarePort Connect for value-based care; and Exclusion Screening’s Compliance Hotline for workforce management. The announcement lists silver and bronze winners in several categories, but not every category has awards at all three levels.
Subscriber Votes Shape Product Recognition
The awards offer a snapshot of which products drew the most support from SNN subscribers, an audience connected to the skilled nursing sector. Unlike a list selected solely by the organizers, the results were based on subscriber votes after vendors submitted nominations. That gives the awards a direct audience-voting component, though the announcement does not describe the voters’ roles or the size of the voting pool.
The nine categories span both resident-facing care and the administrative systems used to run facilities. The winners include products associated with referrals, care coordination, clinical technology, billing, medication management and staff compliance. For providers comparing tools, the results may help identify products receiving recognition from the publication’s subscribers. They are not, on their own, evidence that a product improves outcomes or performs better than alternatives: the announcement does not provide comparative product testing or outcome data.
The overall MVP designation gives Admissions Engine a separate distinction beyond its category gold. The organizers say it went to the product with the highest total vote count across the awards, making it the top vote-getter in the subscriber process described by SNN.
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How the First Awards Were Decided
SNN describes the awards as recognizing “innovative, evidence-informed” products, solutions and technologies intended to have real-world impact in skilled nursing. The stated areas of impact include quality of life, care, safety and operational effectiveness. These are the program’s aims; the announcement does not publish evidence assessing whether individual winners achieved those effects.
The process began with vendors serving the skilled nursing industry submitting products for nomination earlier in 2026. After the nominations were finalized, subscribers were invited to vote in each category. SNN says the gold, silver and bronze placements reflect those voting results, while the MVP went to the product with the most votes overall.
Robert Holly, Arrowfly’s vice president and editorial director, said the awards were intended to highlight solutions trusted by skilled nursing providers. The organizers direct readers to the SNN POY Awards website and a downloadable winner eBook for more information. The announcement does not provide details on eligibility rules, nomination counts or the methodology used to verify claims about products.
“The inaugural SNN Product of the Year Awards celebrate the innovative, evidence-informed solutions delivering real-world impact across the skilled nursing industry.”
— Robert Holly, Arrowfly vice president and editorial director
Details Behind the Voting Results
The announcement does not state how many subscribers voted, how votes were counted, whether voters could select multiple products, or whether the voting pool was weighted or otherwise screened. It also does not provide nomination totals or a breakdown of vote counts, so the margin between winners and other nominees is unknown.
Although SNN characterizes the nominated solutions as evidence-informed and says the awards recognize real-world impact, the release does not include product-level studies, measured results or independent comparisons. The awards therefore establish which products won the subscriber vote, not that each product has been shown to produce specific clinical or operational outcomes. The announcement also does not list silver or bronze recipients for every category.
Where to Find the Winner List
SNN and Arrowfly direct readers to the Product of the Year Awards website for further information and to download the winner eBook. The announcement does not give dates for a next awards cycle or describe any follow-up evaluation of the winning products. Providers seeking to assess a product will need to consult its documentation and evidence, and compare it with their own operational and care requirements; the award result alone does not provide that assessment.
Key Questions
Who won the overall Most Valuable Product award?
exacare.ai’s Admissions Engine won the MVP award. SNN says the designation went to the product that received the most votes overall from subscribers.
How were the Product of the Year winners selected?
Vendors serving skilled nursing submitted products for nomination. After nominations were finalized, SNN subscribers voted in the categories, and the results determined the listed gold, silver and bronze winners.
How many award categories were included?
The inaugural awards covered nine categories, spanning clinical services, admissions, care coordination, compliance, technology, financial tools, facility operations, value-based care and workforce management.
Does winning establish that a product improves care or operations?
No outcome measurements or independent product comparisons are included in the announcement. The results show subscriber voting outcomes; readers would need additional product evidence to evaluate performance or impact.
Where can readers see the full winners list?
The organizers direct readers to the SNN POY Awards website and its downloadable winner eBook for further details.
Source: skillednursingnews.com
