Skilled Nursing News June 18, 2024
Texas-based Touchstone Communities hasn’t been slowing down this year, with the operator busy acquiring and building properties. On top of brick-and-mortar updates, Touchstone also partnered with Longevity Health in January to offer institutional special needs plans (I-SNPs) to its residents.
It’s very thoughtful, controlled growth aimed at diversification of assets, said Leslie Cunningham Campbell, COO for Touchstone.
Coinciding with this growth is a narrowing of partner networks, Campbell told Skilled Nursing News. The Touchstone team has been deliberate in choosing partners because it seems that these days there is more accountability being sought over quality measures (QMs), one that stretches beyond the facility. And so, partners for care transitions have to be chosen wisely, she said.
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