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Post-acute care providers

Post-acute care providers are often overlooked but remain critical to the overall health of the delivery system. Our unique cross-industry perspective provides insight into how post-acute and long-term care providers fit into the ecosystem and how all types of organizations can support patient needs after hospital discharge.

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New staffing mandates for SNFs will have broad effects. Here's how to prepare.

CMS recently proposed new mandatory staffing levels for SNFs. We analyzed the data to see how many SNFs would be able to meet the proposed requirements, nationally and by county. Read on to understand where SNFs are struggling – and what SNFs and hospitals can do to prepare.

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5 insights on the challenges facing senior care

The healthcare industry is facing a looming challenge: an aging population with an ever-growing demand for care. Achieving equitable, sustainable care requires a shift in how we pay for and provide care to older adults. This report outlines five key insights from our senior care research and their implications for stakeholders across the industry. Understand the challenges and opportunities for providing care to older adults and how you can equip your organization to address the new landscape.

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Delays in transitions to post-acute care

Learn about factors delaying care transitions from acute to post-acute care and what we recommend doing about it.

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The Post-Acute Care Pathways Explorer

Get detailed, downloadable reports that identify provider relationships, quantify provider quality and patient outcomes, and highlight spending trends for custom, user-defined markets.

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TACKLE THESE CHALLENGES

Regardless of where you operate in the healthcare continuum, it’s important to have a deep understanding of the entire post-acute ecosystem.

Our market scans help you learn about the less well-known and more complex sites of care. And our cheat sheet series goes in depth on other areas of the post-acute care continuum.

SNF staffing shortages and facility closures are causing hospitals to feel the effects of delays in care transitions. With no government intervention or funding coming to the rescue, it's up to providers to collaborate on solutions.
Understand the complexities both sides of the continuum face and learn how leaders can work together to ease the strain.
Get comparisons across a wide range of benchmarks and metrics to evaluate your performance in home health and skilled nursing settings.

To strengthen partnerships with acute care providers:

Make the case for yourself as a post-acute partner.
Optimize your role in a preferred provider network.
Collaborate on shared challenges with health system partners.

Establish why post-acute care is a unique opportunity for potential employees.
Provide flexibility and guilt-free time off.
Build growth opportunities for staff.

Build confidence among consumers and staff.
Strengthen alignment across the system.
Improve care transitions from acute to post-acute care.

Access up-to-date Medicare benchmarks to evaluate how your performance stacks up to that of your peers across an array of financial and utilization metrics.
Leverage comparative statistics to help identify high-performing home health providers for partnership or assess your performance relative to your peers and pinpoint internal areas for improvement.
Use our Skilled Nursing Facility Benchmark Generator to get apples-to-apples comparisons of your organization's performance with your peers.
Get skilled nursing facility performance metrics to target opportunities for improved patient care and more cost-efficient administration.

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Expert Insight

5 ongoing challenges of the workforce crisis — and what to do about them

Healthcare's workforce crisis is a top concern for executives, and it's not going away anytime soon. The Radio Advisory podcast team put together insights from five episodes that delve into the short- and long-term challenges the industry faces — and ways leaders can respond.

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Why rural communities are hit hardest by SNF closures — and what can help

SNFs are closing at an alarming rate. Even more concerning, these closures are disproportionately impacting rural patients and providers. Find out what this means for rural communities — and what SNFs and their referring providers can do now to address these struggles.

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Our Take

3 strategies to capitalize on investments in specialization

Post-acute providers can capitalize on emerging health system needs and preferences by creating well-defined, high-quality specialities. Learn how to create a successful specialty and ensure a return on investment.

Expert Insight

How to tackle the 4 root causes of stagnating clinical quality

Quality improvement is a top priority for healthcare organizations, but many struggle to make significant progress due to four underlying problems. From aligning quality goals to addressing workforce shortages and increased care complexity, get practical strategies to tackle each challenge and enhance care quality and patient outcomes.

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Have our skilled experts present to your team, board, and/or customers on Post-Acute Market Trends. We'll dive into the current state of post-acute care and explore 5 trends that may affect the industry going forward to prepare leaders right now.

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Experts

Monica Westhead

Managing director, Delivery system outcomes research

Monica leads cross-continuum quality research at Advisory Board. Her work explores the intersection of clinical and operational outcomes.

Diana Tinta

Content specialist, AskAdvisory

Diana Tinta serves on Advisory Board's AskAdvisory team supporting member questions on nursing, post-acute care, healthcare workforce, and physician strategy.

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Post-acute care providers

New staffing mandates for SNFs will have broad effects. Here's how to prepare.

5 insights on the challenges facing senior care

Delays in transitions to post-acute care

The Post-Acute Care Pathways Explorer

5 ongoing challenges of the workforce crisis — and what to do about them

Why rural communities are hit hardest by SNF closures — and what can help

3 strategies to capitalize on investments in specialization