by Jane Adler | Dec 5, 2019 | Healthcare, medicare, seniors housing
As providers grapple with how to best care for frail elders, a new model of collaboration is being launched that could serve as a national template for the integration of housing and healthcare. Ten senior living and care organizations in the Twin Cities will offer a...
by Jane Adler | Oct 16, 2019 | Healthcare, medicare
Amid huge structural changes in the healthcare system, population health management is quickly emerging as a way for skilled nursing and assisted living providers to improve the healthcare outcomes of residents and reduce costs. “Population health management is an...
by NIC | May 30, 2019 | Healthcare, medicare, seniors housing
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...
by Jane Adler | May 23, 2019 | Healthcare, medicare, seniors housing
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,...
by Katie Roper | Apr 4, 2019 | Healthcare, medicare, seniors housing
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...
by Jane Adler | Mar 21, 2019 | Healthcare, medicare, NIC Conference, seniors housing
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,...