When Renee Lohman, the founder and former CEO of the CareWell Urgent Care chain of clinics in Massachusetts, was seeking a new opportunity in health care, she didn’t have to look far past her own experience with a family member in a skilled nursing facility. “I was pretty well stunned by the 1970s physical plant,” […]
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As hospitals’ preferred discharge networks narrow, high-level thinkers and consultants in the skilled nursing space have long preached the importance of certain key metrics: shorter lengths of stay, lower readmissions, and less overall Medicare spend. Now a new study shows those concerns are grounded in reality. In the years leading up to the creation of […]