09/18/2025
The Forum Wins Gold in McKnight’s Tech Awards 2025
Top senior living and care technology efforts and the individuals and companies behind them were honored across 16 categories on September 17 at the 15th annual McKnight’s Excellence in Technology Awards ceremony.
Gold, Silver and Bronze awards were bestowed as determined by an independent panel of 26 long-term care stakeholders. Victors included provider-vendor duos and involved nonprofit and for-profit entities traversing the senior living, skilled nursing and home care sectors.
The Forum won gold in two categories for the McKnight’s Tech Awards 2025:
- NEURVESTA Vestibular Stimulation Therapy for Restoring Balance – GOLD in the category Emerging Technology
- Non-invasive Vestibular Stimulation Therapy for Balance Recovery – GOLD in the category Falls Prevention, Management or Detection
Falls Prevention, Management or Detection
The Falls Prevention, Management or Detection category recognizes the use of technology that helps providers reduce the risk of falls injuries among residents, patients or clients.
The NEURVESTA technology also netted Neursantys, The Forum at Rancho San Antonio and LCS a Gold award in this category. Here, the entry was titled “Non-invasive Vestibular Stimulation Therapy for Balance Recovery.”
The program recognized with this award was the first broadly applicable, non-invasive electrical vestibular stimulation treatment protocol to help restore degraded vestibular function, with effects lasting for 6 to 12 months.
The technology increases vestibular function, improves standing balance and gait and reduces the risk of falls. Central to it is the Phybrata sensor, which enables a rapid, two-minute balance assessment to identify vestibular degradation and elevated fall risk.
Every resident in a pilot program achieved improvement in balance and other fall-related risk factors. And the number of participants who were classified as “high fall-risk” decreased by 75%.
Emerging Technology
The Emergency Technology category acknowledges innovators who have developed technology-driven tools showing great potential for improving care and/or the bottom line, even though they are not yet in the broad marketplace.
Winning Gold in the category was Neursantys, The Forum at Rancho San Antonio and LCS for an entry titled “NEURVESTA Vestibular Stimulation Therapy for Restoring Balance.”
Bioelectronic medical device company Neursantys has developed NEURVESTA VST, a six-week, non-invasive electrical vestibular stimulation treatment protocol, to help restore degraded vestibular function, with effects said to last 6 to 12 months. Together with Caring Hands Caregivers, Neursantys worked with the Forum at Rancho San Antonio, an LCS-managed continuing care retirement community in the San Francisco Bay Area, to launch the first US pilot study of the protocol.
The study, involving 35 residents, showed that the protocol can enhance balance and lower the risk of falls, resulting in residents feeling more confident to participate in group outings and return to their exercise classes, and delaying the potential need for a higher level of care.
To read the full article from McKnight’s, click here.
