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NIC Leadership Huddle  |  Skilled Nursing  |  healthcare

Skilled Nursing Integration: Will COVID be the Catalyst for Tighter Hospital Partnerships?

By: NIC  |  April 23, 2021

Unlike home health and other post-acute sectors, skilled nursing operators and hospitals have not entered into many joint venture partnerships. The COVID-19 pandemic, however, may be the wakeup call hospitals need to consider more integrated relationships that strengthen alignment. In the latest NIC Leadership Huddle, titled “Skilled Nursing Integration: Will COVID be the Catalyst for Tighter Hospital Partnerships?” health system executives got together to discuss joint ventures with skilled nursing partners. Andre Maksimow, senior vice president, Kaufman Hall, began the discussion by illustrating how a Kaufman Hall client’s discharge pattern has changed over the pandemic. The Northeastern health system, which typically discharges 22,000 Medicare and Medicare Advantage patients annually, sent far fewer patients to skilled nursing facilities (SNFs) last year. “It’s a two-order effect, a compound issue,” he explained, pointing out that, on one hand, there was “less volume coming out of the hospital,” and on the other, “less going to skilled nursing versus home health.” Skilled nursing providers in the area are currently seeing a 25% reduction in overall discharges.

Business Environment  |  NIC Leadership Huddle  |  Senior Housing

The Value of Relationships in Seniors Housing

By: NIC  |  March 18, 2021

In mid-September 2020, even as the COVID-19 pandemic continued to drive weaker occupancy rates, higher expenses, and intense media scrutiny of the senior living sector, a ten-property senior living portfolio was successfully closed in a recapitalization and acquisition deal.

NIC Leadership Huddle  |  Senior Housing  |  Skilled Nursing

Is There an Investment Case for Skilled Nursing in the Intra-and Post-Pandemic World?

By: NIC  |  March 01, 2021

With all-too-frequent headlines of “nursing home deaths,” federal and state deficits, increased competition from home health agencies, and historic low occupancy levels while wage pressures continue – how will the nursing home industry emerge from the pandemic? In the latest NIC Leadership Huddle event, expert panelists, and then attendees in small groups, joined a spirited discussion on the skilled nursing sector’s short-term and long-term operational challenges and the impact on property valuations.

COVID-19  |  NIC Leadership Huddle  |  Senior Housing

Fact or Fiction: Lending Markets During a Pandemic, and Beyond

By: NIC  |  February 12, 2021

Hundreds of investors, owners, operators, analysts, and other industry stakeholders attended the latest in NIC’s new series of Leadership Huddle events Wednesday. In the webinar portion of the event, which was sponsored by National Health Investors (NHI), they were treated to a virtual smorgasbord of insights and expert discussion around financing markets in seniors housing and care. Attendees who had opted to participate in the Zoom discussion breakout session that followed, continued the discussion, adding their own thoughts and experiences in small groups.

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