The Future Leaders Awards program is brought to you in partnership with PointClickCare. The program is designed to recognize up-and-coming industry members who are shaping the next decade of senior housing, skilled nursing, home health and hospice care. To see this year’s future leaders, visit https://futureleaders.agingmedia.com/.
Megan Corcoran, regional director of operations for Health Dimensions Group, has been named a 2022 Future Leader by Skilled Nursing News.
To become a Future Leader, an individual is nominated by their peers. The candidate must be a high-performing employee who is 40-years-old or younger, a passionate worker who knows how to put vision into action and an advocate for seniors.
Corcoran spoke with Skilled Nursing News about the importance of being nimble in a constantly evolving industry and how operators can meet the moment by embracing technology advancements while adopting progressive approaches to care delivery.
SNN: What drew you to the industry?
Megan: It very much has to do with my family who also worked in health care for their entire careers, my grandma and my Mom. It was a bit second nature for me to be in a long-term care community; it’s always been where I am comfortable. I didn’t really realize that I would want to do this forever because my family’s health care experience has always been in hospitals, acute care, nothing post-acute. Leadership is the one thing that has kept me here. I really love leading people and leading for a greater good. I like problem solving, deep diving into bigger picture issues and coming up with a strategy or coming up with a different solution.
SNN: What’s your biggest lesson learned since starting to work in this industry?
The industry is constantly changing, evolving and growing. If you don’t continue to grow and evolve and change with the industry then you’ll die. If you’re not growing, you’re dying, right? That was something I had to learn pretty quickly, especially with regulatory challenges, staffing challenges, financial challenges. If you can’t figure out how to grow with that and evolve then you will not make it.
SNN: If you could change one thing with an eye toward the future of skilled nursing, what would it be?
People need to be willing to take risks and do more with less, maybe with more technology or do things that are more out-of-the-box.
SNN: What do you foresee as being different about the skilled nursing industry looking ahead to 2023?
There are so many opportunities out there for skilled nursing to collaborate with other providers, to really make sure you have the best product in the market or collaborate with other providers to make sure you have the best relationship in the neighborhood with a hospital system or with an ACO.
SNN: In a word, how would you describe the future of skilled nursing?
Evolving. I feel like we have evolved a lot of our regular, everyday systems. Because of the pandemic and now subsequent staffing challenges, it’s evolving into a totally different product that we’re selling … more technologically advanced because we have to take a more progressive approach in how we care for people.
