McKnight’s Senior Living October 2, 2023
NCAL Executive Director LaShuan Bethea had shared the organization’s strategic planning focus areas at lunch: workforce, regulatory, affordable assisted living, quality, population health, risk/liability and advocacy. Many of those topics were featured during the day’s sessions, and some found their way to the final session of the 17th annual event.
Underpinning or intersecting with many if not all of those areas? Data, and if NCAL has anything to say about it, assisted living providers soon will be collecting more of it.
Data present an answer to several of the industry’s challenges, the panelists said. For instance, data enable operators to know that an approach to resident care is producing the desired result.
“If you aren’t collecting data, you’re going through...