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Thursday Morning Breakout Sessions • 11:00 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.


Download a PDF of the 2011 Skilled Nursing Investment Forum Preliminary Program.

Making Your Case: Using Data Systems to Capture Outcomes
In the emerging post-acute world, the ability to identify and routinely measure and report outcomes data accurately will be the key to remaining competitive. Learn how some of the most innovative providers are dealing with this challenge and what you can do to integrate these systems into your existing operations. Hear from a health system executive who will discuss the critical decision points within acute care and how to leverage your organization’s post-acute expertise in mutually productive ways. The national leader in QIS development and the developer of hospitalization measures for the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) and MedPAC will give his unique perspective on the evolving role of quality assessment and outcome measurement in post-acute care. He currently leads an organization in the development of web-based data systems and training for providers to assess quality outcomes and improve performance.

Moderator: James C. Thompson, Senior Vice President, Capmark Bank

Panelists:
  • Lane M. Bowen, EVP & President, Health Services Division, Kindred Healthcare
  • Andrew Kramer, MD, Chief Executive Officer, Nursing Home Quality, LLC & Professor Emeritus, University of Colorado School of Medicine
  • Jeffrey S. Lemon, President, Spectrum Health Continuing Care


When Will the Banks Be Back? And What Are They Doing Now?
According to NIC MAP data, which is intended to be representative but not all encompassing, record new loan volume for seniors housing of more than $7.6 billion in 2007 was followed by declines to $4.5 billion in 2008, and $3.5 billion in 2009. Of the $1.3 billion reported in 2009 for skilled nursing, $1.1 billion resulted from a single large transaction in the third quarter of 2009, leaving only $200 million for the entire year. Not since 2003 has the reported new loan volume for skilled nursing been less than $200 million. Banks that are lending report more conservative underwriting that includes higher debt service coverage requirements, lower loan-to-value ratios and stronger guaranty and sponsorship requirements. With many real estate-heavy balance sheets with maturities ongoing over the next couple of years, borrowers might expect more of the same. Get the facts directly from a national commercial real estate expert and three bank executives active in the current market.

Moderator: Daryl McCombs, Director, RED CAPITAL GROUP

Panelists:
  • Sam Chandan, Global Chief Economist and EVP, Real Capital Analytics
  • Steve Gilleland, Senior Director, Healthcare Real Estate, CapitalSource
  • Jeffrey Steele, Managing Director and Executive Vice President, The PrivateBank
  • Richard A. Sutton, Vice President, California Bank & Trust


Culture Change - ‘Soft’ Like a Brick: How Facilities and Companies are Achieving Serious Financial and Clinical Results Through Resident-Directed Care
Sometimes viewed as “soft,” “touchy-feely,” or simply expensive, culture change is often dismissed as a business model for devoted idealists. Yet a growing number of facilities and companies are achieving outsized returns and significantly improving their business results by resourcefully re-tooling their business models to incorporate the principles of culture change. Regulators also are serious about culture change, broadening their interpretations of regulations with a positive view toward resident directed care initiatives. Are staff retention, resident satisfaction, clinical outcomes, occupancy and case mix on your list of things to improve in your facility, your company, or your clients’ companies? This panel of operators and experts will share how their facilities and companies have made big improvements in results through culture change. They will discuss the key considerations leaders must reconcile to make their own business case for culture change and its desired business results. They will also examine the market and regulatory forces that are combining to catapult culture change forward as a serious operating imperative.

Moderator: Mark Ballif, Plum Healthcare Group

Panelists:
  • David J. Farrell, Director of Organizational Development, SnF Management
  • Jeff Jerebker, President, Piñon Management, Inc.


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Interested in becoming a sponsor of the NIC Skilled Nursing Investment Forum? Please contact Elisa Freeman at 410-267-0504 for more information