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"Rather than building their own healthcare capabilities, many operators will partner on care coordination to unlock value."
Housing and Healthcare Blog
Weekly insights, interviews, news, and opinions on healthcare and seniors housing.
Authors’ views are their own and do not reflect the views of NIC.
Age-Friendly Health Systems Allow Better Outcomes for Seniors
Life expectancy rates over the past century have nearly doubled. And as Terry Fulmer, president of The John A. Hartford Foundation, sees it, increased longevity is the greatest success story of the 20th century. Speaking to an audience of seniors housing and care...
2019 NIC Talk Says the Time for Telemedicine is Now
In his NIC Talk, The Future of Telemedicine, at the 2019 NIC Fall Conference, he opens with: “I’m here to tell you about why, and how, the healthcare delivery system that we have today is going to be virtualized. This is important to you because if you have a virtualized healthcare delivery system you can actually bring healthcare to the seniors as opposed to the seniors having to travel into the healthcare delivery system to get their care.”
Collaboration Key to Success in Changing Skilled Nursing Landscape
What separates the winners from the losers? The question took center stage at a panel discussion on skilled nursing at the recent 2019 NIC Fall Conference in Chicago. The panel included three industry experts and was moderated by NIC Senior Principal Bill...
One Year Later: An Update on the Welltower-ProMedica Partnership
Welltower’s Tom DeRosa discusses how the game-changing deal is taking real estate to the next level In July 2018, a groundbreaking partnership provided further evidence of the industry’s quickly changing trajectory. In a $4.4 billion deal, the big healthcare REIT...
Social Determinants of Health Frame New Partnership
Health isn’t just determined by eating right, staying fit and getting regular check-ups. Evidence is growing that other factors—the social determinants of health—have a huge impact on well-being and healthcare outcomes. The social determinants of health...
“There's a huge opportunity for seniors housing to collaborate with home health.”
“Understand what metrics your hospital partners want.”
“Rather than building their own healthcare capabilities, many operators will partner on care coordination to unlock value.”
“Providers are teaming up to assure a seamless, high quality experience”
“If you are not talking the health plan's language, you will be commoditized.”
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