not your mother's retirement or nursing home
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Not Yo Mamma’s Retirement Home
Why Kroger’s Has Better Technology Than Nursing Homes and Why It Matters
presented by Irving L. Stackpole
The Challenge of Occupancy
Why are occupancies poor?
What should be done?
What role can technology play?
Responding to a declining market
Defend, protect & fortify• Manage to Loyalty
Increase Productivity / Efficiency Innovate Differentiate
Myths
The aging population is growing
A rising tide “floats all boats”
People always get sick
Myth Buster
Occupancies are poor because the age qualified markets are declining
ALSO, occupancies are poor because of • Increased options / choices• Negative perception• The economy• “Intermediaries”
Kroger’s competes on ≤ 2% margins• Can retirement centers & nursing homes?
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Population myth - headlines are not bottom lines
~6.4 mm @15%~ 960,000
What’s the problem?
Why are occupancies declining?
Is “Marketing” that bad? Is “Sales” that bad?
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2020Born 1934
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2017Born 1931
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Negativity
Sector NOT thought of as the valuable resource it is …
They are seen as prisons – awful places – The “F” word– “Don’t want to put / place mom in a nursing
home.”– “I’d rather be dead.”
Deep metaphor of negativity
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Responding to a declining market
Defend, protect & fortify• Manage to Loyalty
Increase Productivity / Efficiency Innovate Differentiate
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Source of Efficiencies
Employees– Key to costs / outputs
Are we getting more staff? Staff produce “patient / family experience”Staff produce Quality & Value
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Productivity & Efficiency
Outputs for Inputs– Productivity ≠ Staff ReductionsSimple Efficiency– Purchase decision cycle – Time?Pull through
Case Managers, Consumers, Doctors“Actors”
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EfficiencyTechnical, Productive, Allocative
–TechnicalMaximum improvement from resources
–ProductiveBest health outcome for given costs or
reduction in cost for the same outcome–Allocative
Best outcomes for society
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Innovate / Add Efficiencies
Post Acute Care Transitions Hospitals
– Resident & Family satisfaction data– Transactional efficiency
Pharmacy & RehabHCBS
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Facts of Life The age qualified market is shrinking Continued pressure on payments Continued pressure on utilization Efficiencies & productivity are the
keys to effective differentiation
Responding to a declining market
Defend, protect & fortify• Manage to Loyalty
Increase Productivity / Efficiency Innovate Differentiate
Call or email Irving Stackpole+1-617-739-5900, Ext. 11
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