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Given the need for quality and modern nursing homes with a well balanced mix of services and amenities in

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Convert old hospitals and other provincial buildings into seniors housing before considering them for other uses or tearing them down. These facilities could maintain a health care clinic on site. A complete evaluation of the buildings and properties would be completed to ensure the longevity and

The federal government needs to evaluate different types of long-term facilities to determine which one is the most effective and can provide assistance to the majority of older individuals in need of long term care. Once the optimal long-term care facility is determine, the government can invest to help the industry grow to satisfy the need of the aging population. Medicare’s future coverage of long-term services will help the economy by recovering those lost wages from the informal care and will create more health care jobs, all while providing support to older

In the 2010 census, the United States population of seniors, or those over the age of 65 was 35 million. This number is expected to grow to 70 million by the year 2030. With children moving far away from their parents, providing assistance may be difficult, which is why senior care franchises are one of the best business investment opportunities right now.

On one hand, our community has generous capacity offering prime Real Estate options for living, but on the other hand, it struggles to support age specific health care services preventing our seniors of having well deserved

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Private health insurance is made up of the three principal entities, which is commercial carriers, the Blues, and HMOs plus self- funded plans. The important of PHI as a source of financing for personal health care expenditures has increased slowly, but steadily (Williams & Torrens, 2010). Although there is no denying that some government health insurance programs such as Medicare deliver benefits at far less administrative cost per dollar of

The need for affordable assisted living is significant and largely unmet. Less than half of seniors in the U.S. can afford to live in high-cost assisted living communities. This leaves the majority neglected, living at risk at home or prematurely entering a nursing facility. The Ashford at Sturbridge, Wallick’s third affordable and fifth assisted living community, will serve as a cost-effective option for these seniors.

Knowing the facts, I decided to propose this project to open two Ambulatory Geriatric Clinic care facility in Sequim and Port Angeles that will accommodate needs of elderly and will allow us wisely distribute our limited resources we have from government funding. As you can see, the demographics are speaking for themselves and it’s an obvious the time is here and we need to act as fast as we can to start on the project to get appropriate care our seniors deserve.

There are many barriers that arise when searching for a solution for lack of appropriate beds. Some include; not enough beds, an influx of elderly people, out of date infrastructure, and lack of hospital and personal funds. “Hospital beds are our choke points in the system; with a fixed number of beds, they limit the number of admissions” (Sutherland and Crump, 2013, p.27). The obvious solution would be to build more beds; however, this is a temporary, and costly fix (Sutherland and Crump, 2014, p. 28). This does not address the underlying problem of discharging patients into alternative care facilities. The new beds could potentially be filed with more ALC patients so building more beds just exacerbates the situation (Sutherland and Crump,

I like your idea regarding visiting nurses. If there isn't an expansion of the long term care facility or if others cant be built visiting nurses is a great option. Since there will be a huge increase in the number of older adults in the county it is expected that there will be an increase in the number of people needing continuing care when they return home. I don't think many people or families know about the broad range of care and support services that's available with home health care. I also like your idea regarding plans to attract people to the area. The waiting lists is already long with a 1-3 week wait. With an increase in the number of older adults the wait lists will be even longer. Maybe the county should think about extending

With the favorable population demographic trends which are continually increasing up to 2010, acquiring the five nursing homes with a total of 450 beds in South Bend, Indiana for $5,000,000 is an attractive opportunity to geographically diversify Longevity Healthcare Systems Incorporated.

While Dana did not consider the site potential of other property types, he did a good job researching his options for eldercare facilities. His analysis included regional analysis (comparing other cities and counties to Fort Myers), population trends, Fort Myers healthcare statistics, industry and competitor analysis (by viewing a consultant report), financing alternatives and financial analysis. Together, the information provided a thorough overview of his options within eldercare.

According to Gunter & Terry (2005), the shift to an episodic care model like that of the shift from in-patient to ambulatory care has increased the “need for accurate and efficient flow of patient medical and billing information between organizationally and geographically distinct providers”. Another shift has been that to managed care, whose complex operations have evolved various needs. Their PCP’s as gate keepers have data needs, their consumers demand performance reviews, their system administrators have evolving needs for complex utilization review and risk management tools, and organizations have developed the need for data transparency (Gunter & Terry, 2005). The health service shift to shared care has also developed the patients need for access to health data, specifically information in their medical record. Shared care is described by Gunter & Terry (2005) as the relationship where “the patient shares responsibility with the provider for care. Shared care often leads to large numbers of fragmented or episodic relationships with multiple providers and it has created the need for providers to have continuous access to other occasions of treatment, especially pharmacy related care (Gunter & Terry, 2005). Lastly, the evolution of the health care industry has also introduced demand for increasing amounts of data regarding performance errors or near misses and outcomes in populations (Gunter & Terry, 2005). This clearly is information