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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.
House Calls Make a Comeback
A senior living provider in the Northwest forms partnerships with local healthcare groups to bring medical services to the residents’ doorstep. Imagine this scenario. A resident falls and breaks her arm. Instead of calling an ambulance to rush her to the hospital...
Emerging Solutions for Communication Challenges in Seniors Housing & Care
By Fee Stubblefield, Founder & CEO, The Springs Living A few years ago, one of our residents went through a series of transitions that made it painfully clear to me that the senior living industry, ourselves included, needed tremendous improvement in our care...
Headlines Digest
Numerous recent headlines, many of which can be found here on the seniorcare.nic.org resources page, detail how real-world business decisions are increasingly driven by value-based care. NIC carefully curates and regularly updates a list of links to stories,...
Seniorcare.nic.org Builds an Audience
Since launching in December of 2018, www.seniorcare.nic.org has steadily grown an audience, now numbering in the thousands. Each month, new readers find the blog, spending an average of almost two minutes on each visit, and hundreds have subscribed so that they can be...
In-house or Outsource? Service Integration Takes Two Paths.
What’s the best way to integrate healthcare services into seniors housing and care communities? Two basic approaches are emerging. Owners and operators are launching their own ancillary service lines, or they’re collaborating with established providers. And sometimes,...
“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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