As the nursing home sector readies for regulatory and policy shifts to fix what has been referred to as a “broken system” in recent months, the Green House Project and Pioneer Network announced plans this week to enter into a formal alliance.
The Green House Project and Pioneer Network hope to draw on their decades of shared experience to improve the lives of people living in nursing homes, while also building a better eldercare infrastructure for future generations.
With a growing footprint across the country, Green House homes create non-institutional eldercare environments that are designed with private rooms and large communal spaces that better match current patient preferences. The Pioneer Network, a national nonprofit organization, is focused on public policy advocacy and culture change that pushes for more person-centered care.
The partnership will see the two build a shared executive leadership team as it hopes to be a one-stop shop for providers.
Green House has also voiced support for recent proposals from the Biden administration and National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (NASEM) to transform the way eldercare is delivered and paid for, as both organizations have highlighted ways to foster better care in nursing homes across the country.
“In the wake of the COVID-19 disaster in nursing homes and other eldercare settings, reform-minded organizations must band together to amplify their voices and cut through the ineffective rhetoric that has held back true change for decades,” Green House Project Senior Director Susan Ryan said in a news release announcing the partnership.
The joint entity will serve as a full-continuum consulting, advisory, and education partner for eldercare organizations.
The two have shared history as geriatrician and Pioneer Network co-founder Dr. Bill Thomas launched The Green House Project in 2003 with the intention of abandoning institutional mini-hospital-like settings in favor of small homes with private rooms and communal spaces.
“For years, the Green House Project and Pioneer have collaborated on a variety of eldercare reform initiatives, driven by our shared history and mission to improve the lives of nursing home residents today and in the future,” Pioneer Network President & CEO Penny Cook said in the news release. “Together, we will go farther than we could as parallel travelers on the same path.”
The way care is financed, delivered and regulated in the nursing home sector has been criticized in recent months as being both ineffective and inefficient. Some, including the Biden administration and NASEM researchers, see significant strategic investment and regulation overhauls as the only way to improve what has become a fragmented and unsustainable system.
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