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"Rather than building their own healthcare capabilities, many operators will partner on care coordination to unlock value."
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Weekly insights, interviews, news, and opinions on healthcare and seniors housing.
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Integrating Social Determinants of Health (SDOH) in Care Management: Considerations for Health Strategists
Editor’s note: this piece was submitted by Erdman. Authors’ views are their own and do not reflect the views of NIC. EXECUTIVE SUMMARY Addressing the social needs of communities, including maturing populations, improves long-term health management and reduces...
How to Survive the Post-Acute Realignment
Partnership strategies to boost skilled nursing referrals and occupancies The days are quickly vanishing when the hospital discharge planner made a referral based on a personal relationship with a skilled nursing administrator. The realities of value-based care with...
For Those Operators Who Are Integrating Health Care into their Operations, the Right Choice of Physician Partners is Important
In the growing and evolving value-based health care world, “strategic upstream and downstream partnerships are vital for survival,” said Joseph Kiernan, chief strategy officer at Ocean Healthcare, at the recent NIC Spring Conference. Traditional health care...
Investor Bets on Medicare Advantage
Some forward-looking investors are taking stakes in Medicare Advantage (MA) providers and plans, which this group of investors believe will likely produce new revenues streams for seniors housing operators and owners over the next five years. Take, for example,...
Government in Health Care
It was a constant refrain across many of the educational sessions at the NIC 2019 Spring Conference last month in San Diego: The government is going to get more involved in health care. Luncheon speaker Ian Morrison, a self-described health care futurist (“a futurist...
“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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