NIC Notes

Insights in Seniors Housing & Care

COVID-19  |  Ideas and Discussion  |  Senior Housing

Telehealth and Senior Living | Telehealth is Here to Stay: A Guidebook

By: Kelsey Mellard, Robin Glass, and Caroline Ririe  |  November 05, 2020

Telehealth, telemedicine, virtual care, eConsult, store-and-forward…what does this all mean? More importantly, how do you better serve your resident populations — in a global pandemic and onward? Telehealth is a broad term that seems to get caught in a tangled web of policy, compliance, and reimbursement. However, telehealth brings incredible promise to our highest risk populations in this pandemic, and has transformational implications for the way healthcare will be delivered even once the pandemic is behind us.

COVID-19  |  Market Trends  |  Skilled Nursing

Skilled Nursing Occupancy Hits New Low in August 2020

By: Bill Kauffman  |  November 04, 2020

Managed Medicare revenue mix at 8.2% NIC MAP® Data Service released its latest Skilled Nursing Monthly Report on October 29, 2020, which includes key monthly data points from January 2012 through August 2020.

COVID-19  |  Market Trends  |  NIC MAP Vision  |  Senior Housing

The Ongoing Impact of COVID-19: Six Takeaways from NIC MAP’s 3Q20 Seniors Housing Data Release Webinar

By: Beth Mace  |  October 29, 2020

NIC MAP® Data Service clients attended a webinar in mid-October on key seniors housing data trends during the third quarter of 2020. Findings reflected the impact of COVID-19 across the seniors housing and care sector, led by NIC’s research team. Key takeaways included the following:

Business Environment  |  COVID-19  |  Economic Trends  |  Executive Survey Insights  |  Market Trends  |  Workforce

Executive Survey Insights Wave 14: October 12 to October 25, 2020

By: Lana Peck  |  October 29, 2020

“Wave 14 of NIC’s Executive Survey Insights data provides insights into some of the bottom-line pressures being felt by a number of operators. C-suite respondents to the survey cited growing use of rent concessions to support sales efforts as well as increasing wage pressures associated with a growing reliance on both overtime pay and agency/temp staff that is being hired to help mitigate labor shortages.”

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