Senior living leaders recognize the importance of forging strong ties with hospitals and health care systems, but it appears many operators have been complacent and might now lack the tools to seize on partnership opportunities that would give them a competitive edge in a brand new health care landscape. International design, planning and consulting firm […]
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Senior living providers often rely on forms that communicate residents’ end-of-life choices, but once a resident leaves the community for medical care, those forms don’t appear to be doing their job. In fact, there is “significant confusion” among emergency physicians and prehospital care providers in interpreting the universal end-of-life care documents, called Physicians Orders for Life […]
For senior living providers who want to be in the business of forming post-acute care partnerships, they’ll have to abandon certain conventional wisdom and re-examine how they present their organizations to their potential partners. To play in the post-acute care partnership game, senior living providers have to address three criteria: quicker, sicker and the ticker, […]
Two years after the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) launched its Pioneer Accountable Care Organization (ACO) model, the initiative is now down to about 60% of its original participants following the exit of three health systems last week. The latest ACOs to leave the CMS program—Franciscan Alliance in Indianapolis; Genesys PHO in Flint, […]
The appetite for mergers and acquisitions in the health services sector is healthy, as the volume of deals in the first two quarters of the year are on pace with that of the first half of 2013, a PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP (PwC) report suggests. But some sectors are faring better than others: The managed care and […]
A 10th Medicare Pioneer accountable care organization (ACO) is throwing in the towel, following other ACOs that previously left in favor of other Medicare saving opportunities or dropped out of the ACO program altogether. Sharp HealthCare, a five-hospital system in San Diego, announced it was leaving the Pioneer ACO program in its third-quarter financial statement. Sharp […]
A popular arrangement in the past where physicians provided care to patients within the comfort of their own homes, house calls haven’t completely gone out of style just yet, especially given their proven effectiveness in saving money for healthcare providers and federal programs alike, a recent study finds. Researchers with MedStar Washington Hospital Center, a 926-bed teaching and […]
Senior Housing News wrote them, you read them and passed them along to your friends and colleagues. Here are the most shared posts from SHN this week: Dished: How Five Star is Overhauling Senior Living Dining—Fifteen chefs, four 50-pound sea bass and a celebrity food personality are just a few features going down at an […]
Following $3.8 billion of acquisitions under agreement in the last few months, Ventas, Inc. (NYSE: VTR) is ramping up its redevelopment activity with hundreds of millions in projects currently under construction. The Chicago-based real estate investment trust (REIT) has been increasing the pace of its redevelopment efforts over the past few quarters. In the second […]
Ascension, the nation’s largest nonprofit Catholic health system, has announced it will unite the majority of its senior-focused programs under the national organization Ascension Health Senior Care, creating the second-largest not-for-profit long-term care provider in the country. Ascension Health Senior Care will oversee a total of 5,568 senior care/senior living beds and three PACE (Program […]
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