New capabilities bring structured assessments and AI-curated discharge insights together to help care managers coordinate safer, faster transitions from skilled nursing facilities

TORONTO, June 8, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — PointClickCare, a leading health tech company helping providers deliver exceptional care, today announced new AI capabilities for skilled nursing facility (SNF) discharge planning that provide care management teams at ACOs, hospitals, and health plans with a clearer, earlier, and more complete view of discharge activity within SNFs. These enhancements to PointClickCare’s PAC Management solution will be introduced at the AHIP 2026 Annual Conference on June 9-10.

For care management teams, discharge planning within SNFs has long been a blind spot. Today, discharge planning spans multiple care teams and systems. While SNFs coordinate follow-up appointments, home health referrals, durable medical equipment (DME), and discharge disposition, those details are often scattered across assessments, progress notes, and workflows that are not easily accessible to downstream care teams. When these critical transition details do not follow the patient across care settings, it results in fragmented coordination and potentially avoidable readmissions. According to Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ), the average hospital readmission costs $15,200, underscoring just how quickly discharge planning gaps can become a major financial and operational burden.

“Today, discharge planning is a black box. Care managers chase updates through phone calls and faxes, while SNFs repeatedly relay the same information to multiple stakeholders,” said Shaun Hardin, senior director of product management at PointClickCare. “By bringing AI-informed discharge planning insights into a shared workflow while the patient is still in the SNF, providers can reduce friction, coordinate transitions more effectively, and help prevent avoidable readmissions. This ultimately leads to better care delivery and safer patient transitions.”

As the leading electronic health record (EHR), connected to a network of more than 30,000 long-term and post-acute care providers, PointClickCare is uniquely positioned to bring clarity and coordination to discharge planning. Utilizing AI to read, organize, and surface discharge-relevant information provides care teams with earlier visibility into discharge plans and helps reduce manual calls, faxes, and fragmented workflows that slow transitions of care.

PCC’s PAC Management solution now includes:

Shared SNF Discharge Assessments: Care managers at ACOs, hospitals, and health plans can now access the same structured discharge assessments used by SNFs directly within their care coordination workflows. This creates a shared, authoritative record of discharge planning activity, reducing redundancy, eliminating information gaps, and establishing a common foundation for transition coordination.SNF Discharge Planning Insight: New AI capabilities automatically read and organize discharge-relevant information buried across SNF progress notes and clinical documentation. For each patient, care managers can now clearly see details that matter for a safe transition, while the SNF stay is still in progress. Care management teams no longer have to wait for discharge information or manually piece together data from multiple sources. The insight needed to coordinate services, plan outreach, and prevent failed transitions of care is now available exactly when it is needed, in one place.

PointClickCare will demo the enhanced PAC Management solution at AHIP26, during a theater session titled, “Enabling Care Management as a Proactive Cost Containment Strategy,” on June 10 from 8:45–9:00 a.m. PDT. Care management leaders are invited to learn how PointClickCare is solving for transitions of care across the continuum. Discover how our enhanced PAC Management solution and recently launched Discharge Intel, which delivers critical clinical intelligence within 24 hours of hospital discharge, are helping organizations eliminate blind spots, close care gaps, and drive better outcomes across all care settings.

For more information on how PointClickCare is transforming transitions of care and readmission prevention, visit Booth 1616 at AHIP26 or the PointClickCare website here.

About PointClickCare
PointClickCare is a leading health tech company with one simple mission: to help providers deliver exceptional care. With the largest long‐term and post‐acute care dataset, we power AI-driven healthcare to deliver intelligent transitions, insightful interventions, and improved financial performance. Enhanced by our marketplace of 400+ integrated partners and trusted by over 30,000 provider organizations and every major U.S. health plan, we’re redefining healthcare, so it doesn’t just survive—it thrives.

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SAN FRANCISCO, June 8, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — GrubMarket, the AI-powered technology enabler and digital transformer of the American food supply chain industry, as well as one of the largest private food eCommerce companies globally, today announced the release of its latest specialized AI agent to join GrubMarket AI platform: the Sales AI Agent. This agent is a powerful new capability designed specifically for wholesale food distribution sales teams, empowering them to identify prospective customers, analyze menus and order guides, and generate professional customer-ready price sheets in minutes. By combining territory-based prospect discovery, AI-powered menu analysis, automated quote generation, and multi-channel proposal delivery into a single, seamless workflow, the Sales AI Agent enables distributors to scale their prospecting efforts, respond to opportunities faster, and compete more effectively in increasingly competitive markets. GrubMarket’s new Sales AI Agent represents another major step in its vision of building specialized AI agents that automate and optimize every critical workflow across the food supply chain industry.

For foodservice and restaurant distributors, prospecting and quote creation are often manual, time-consuming processes. Sales representatives spend valuable time researching potential customers within their territories, gathering contact information, reviewing menus, identifying relevant products, and building customized price sheets. These time-consuming, manual activities limit the number of opportunities a sales team can pursue. The Sales AI Agent fundamentally changes this process by enabling sales teams to quickly discover prospective customers, automatically analyze menus and ingredient lists, and generate accurate, customized price sheets with minimal effort. For example, a sales representative might search for restaurants and foodservice operations within a specific geographic area, upload a menu from a prospective customer, and instantly generate a professionally formatted price sheet based on their company’s catalog and pricing structure.

The Sales AI Agent delivers value through six core capabilities:

Territory-Based Prospect Discovery: Sales teams can search by zip code or explore a map to identify restaurants, foodservice operators, and retailers within target markets. Access to business profiles, including contact information, descriptions, and website links, helps distributors build targeted sales campaigns, plan prospecting trips, and uncover new revenue opportunities.AI-Powered Menu Analysis: Users can upload photos or PDFs of restaurant menus and order guides, allowing the Sales AI Agent to intelligently identify products and recommend corresponding catalog items.Automated Price Sheet Generation: The Sales AI Agent automatically creates professional, customer-ready price sheets using configured price groups or custom pricing.Flexible Quote Customization: Users can review, edit, add, and remove products and pricing information to tailor proposals for each prospective customer.Multi-Channel Sharing: Users can easily share generated price sheets with prospects via email, text message, WhatsApp, and other messaging platforms. Price sheets can also be downloaded or printed, making it easy to engage prospects through their preferred communication channel.Seamless Integration: Like all the AI Agents and Analysts powered by GrubMarket AI, the Sales AI Agent integrates seamlessly with leading food distribution software solutions, including WholesaleWare ERP, Thyme Software, Granite State Software, PICS by WaudWare, and Orders IO. It is also available as a standalone solution with support for uploaded product catalogs and price groups.

The Sales AI Agent streamlines the entire sales process from prospect identification through proposal delivery. Sales representatives can discover new accounts, analyze menus and order guides, generate customized price sheets, and distribute professional proposals without leaving the platform. By automating traditionally manual tasks, the Sales AI Agent enables distributors to engage more prospects, shorten sales cycles, and improve sales productivity.

Getting started is simple. Users can define a target geographic area, browse prospective customers, and upload menus or order guides using photos or PDF files. The Sales AI Agent then analyzes the submitted materials, maps items to the distributor’s product catalog, applies pricing, and automatically generates a polished price sheet ready for customer presentation. Users can further customize pricing and products before distributing the proposal through their preferred communication channel.

“The food supply chain industry is undergoing a once-in-a-generation transformation driven by artificial intelligence,” said Mike Xu, CEO of GrubMarket. “With the Sales AI Agent, we are bringing powerful AI capabilities directly into the hands of food distributor sales teams, enabling them to work more efficiently, engage more prospects, and win more business. This launch represents another important step in our broader vision of building specialized AI agents that automate and optimize every major function across the food supply chain industry. As AI continues to evolve, GrubMarket remains committed to leading the industry’s digital transformation and helping food supply chain businesses unlock new levels of intelligence, efficiency, and growth.”

“The traditional process of researching prospects, reviewing menus, selecting products, and building customized quotes can take a sales rep hours for a single opportunity,” said Genevieve Wang, Chief Software Product Officer at GrubMarket. “The Sales AI Agent compresses that process into minutes. By combining prospect discovery, AI-powered menu analysis, and automated price sheet generation into a single workflow, we’re helping distributors engage more prospects, generate more quotes, and win more business while dramatically reducing time spent on administrative work.”

As GrubMarket continues to expand its portfolio of specialized AI agents, the company remains at the forefront of bringing practical, high-impact artificial intelligence solutions to the food supply chain industry, helping businesses operate more efficiently, grow faster, and compete more effectively. Leveraging deep operational insights and unmatched expertise in industry dynamics, GrubMarket continues to pioneer valuable AI solutions tailored to the unique demands of this critical industry, solidifying its role as the clear leader and innovator building the future of AI-powered food supply chain management. To learn more about GrubMarket’s suite of AI products, visit: https://www.grubmarket.ai/

About GrubMarket

GrubMarket is the AI-powered technology enabler and digital transformer of the American food supply chain industry, as well as one of the largest private food eCommerce companies globally. As the enterprise AI solutions provider for the American food supply chain, a first mover in the tech-enabled B2B food eCommerce space, and a pioneer offering cutting-edge, AI-powered software-as-a-service solutions, GrubMarket uses technology to fundamentally transform the American and global food supply chain. GrubMarket was named to the prestigious CNBC Disruptor 50 list for three consecutive years from 2022 to 2025. In 2026, GrubMarket was named to TIME’s list of the TIME100 Companies Industry Leaders. GrubMarket operates in all 50 U.S. states and has a global presence in Argentina, Canada, Chile, Colombia, Egypt, India, Mexico, South Africa, and Spain, with plans to expand further across the U.S., Canada, South America, Europe, Africa, and other parts of the world.

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At the International Sports Engineering Association Conference, TenCate helped recognize research advancing the performance and safety of turf and natural grass surfaces

PULLMAN, Wash., June 8, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — TenCate highlighted emerging sports surface research at the 2026 International Sports Engineering Association (ISEA) Conference, helping recognize researchers whose work is expanding the science behind turf, natural grass and field performance.

During the Sports Surfaces Session, Dr. Colin Young, TenCate’s Chief Technical Officer, presented awards honoring research that is advancing the understanding of synthetic turf materials, natural grass performance and the consistency of NFL playing surfaces.

“Research is essential to improving sports surfaces,” Young said. “When researchers and industry experts work together, we get a better understanding of how surfaces perform, where they can improve and how they can better support athletes.”

Held June 1-4 at Washington State University in Pullman, Wash., the ISEA Conference is the world’s leading gatherings focused on sports engineering and sports technology. The event brings together academics, researchers, sports scientists, product development engineers and major sports brands to share research and explore advances across a wide range of sports technologies.

The Sports Surfaces Session, chaired by Young, focused on surface engineering, testing methods, athlete-surface interaction and sports surface performance.

“For us, ISEA is about being part of the broader sports engineering community and engaging with the people helping move the science forward,” Young said. “You have researchers, engineers, sports scientists and industry leaders all sharing ideas, challenging assumptions and learning from each other. That level of collaboration is extremely valuable.”

TenCate’s role in the Sports Surfaces Session reflects the company’s growing investment in sports surface research through its Center for Turf Innovation, where that work has helped inform the development of Pivot® Performance Turf. The system was developed through years of research into how different surfaces perform, with a focus on creating a turf system that more closely replicates the feel and performance of natural grass.

“Pivot is one example of how our research translates into an actual playing surface,” Young said. “ISEA gives us the opportunity to compare ideas with researchers and engineers who are advancing the science behind sports surfaces. That kind of exchange helps us keep improving how surfaces are designed and evaluated.”

Young said one of the important conversations in sports surface research involves moving beyond broad, simple comparisons between natural grass and synthetic turf and taking a closer look at the athlete and how the surface systems impact them.

“There is growing recognition that surfaces cannot simply be grouped together as ‘grass’ or ‘turf,'” Young said. “Different types of grass and turf behave differently depending on field conditions and many other variables. The more we understand and classify those differences, the better the research and the better the decision-making becomes.”

That focus on more precise classification was reflected in the research recognized during the Sports Surfaces Session. The awards recognized the following papers:

Award for research focused on turf: “Compaction Behavior of Pine Chip Infill on Third Generation Artificial Grass Pitches and Its Effects on Surface Performance,” by Zach Morley, Paul Fleming and Steph Forrester of Loughborough University; and Tom Nott, Emma Coulson, and Joseph Julian of Technical Surfaces Ltd.

Award for research focused on grass: “Traction of sod for NFL use differs by turfgrass species and production method,” by Philipe Aldahir, E. Meade Spratley and Cody O’Cain of UMS BioCore; Evan Mascitti of the University of Massachusetts Amherst; Andrew McNitt of Pennsylvania State University; Kristy Arbogast of Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia; John Sorochan of the University of Tennessee at Knoxville; and Laura Schmitt of The Ohio State University.

Award for research focused on testing and implementation: “Spatial consistency of National Football League game fields using player-informed traction and impact testing,” by many of the same researchers, including Aldahir, Mascitti, Spratley, O’Cain, McNitt, Arbogast, Sorochan and Schmitt, along with Nicholas Pappas of the National Football League.

The award-winning research reflects the growing emphasis on understanding how different surfaces perform under real-world conditions, a focus that has also shaped TenCate’s own research and product development efforts.

TenCate developed Pivot to replicate the feel and performance of natural grass while delivering a more consistent playing surface under real-world use. The system combines durable sports fibers with newer fibers designed to look and feel more like natural grass. Years of intentional innovation led to successful removal of infill and finding new ways to create stability, grip and proper release. The system offers athletes reliable traction, a stable surface and consistent playability year-round – resulting in peak torque like natural grass.

As part of its development, Pivot was tested with over 1,000 college and professional athletes wearing sensors to capture movement patterns and surface interaction during play. The resulting data helped refine how the surface delivers traction, release and response under actual playing conditions.

“We are seeing increasing interest in how surfaces behave when athletes are actually moving on them,” Young said. “The conversation is becoming more sophisticated. It’s not just about isolated metrics. It’s about understanding how surfaces perform through movement, repetition and real-world use.”

For TenCate, participation at ISEA reflects a long-standing commitment to sports surface research and continued work with the scientific and engineering communities advancing the field.

“ISEA is where research, engineering and practical application meet,” Young said. “That exchange is important because better science leads to better surface design. The more precisely we understand how surfaces perform, the better we can build systems that feel natural, stay consistent and support athletes throughout training and competition.”

About TenCate
TenCate is the world’s leading manufacturer, distributor and installer of synthetic turf systems for sports and landscape applications. Headquartered in Dalton, Georgia, with operations in the U.S., Netherlands, U.K. and U.A.E., the company serves customers in more than 40 countries with a suite of trusted brands and products. They include the new Pivot® Performance Turf, designed to deliver grasslike performance without performance infill. Learn more at www.tencategrass.us and www.pivot-turf.com.

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