HealthTech September 14, 2023
Senior care organizations are implementing onsite primary care services to offer residents a whole-person wellness experience.
Cypress Living used to have a physician lease a space on its campus for residents to receive primary care several days a week. Then, when the COVID-19 pandemic began in 2020, the senior care organization based in Fort Myers, Fla., decided to build out its own medical care practice to connect care teams for a more proactive, predictive approach to residents’ health.
Seamless collaboration is a key reason to offer onsite primary care at a senior living community, says Louisa Cannamela, vice president of clinical services at Cypress Living.
“Primary care is that one area that has to pull everything together,” she says. “It...