Question

What is the useful life of a hospital building? Many institutions have constructed new facilities within recent years. Some organizations have divested their real property and lease the facilities from the new owners (e.g., HCR Manor Care and Steward Health). What are the challenges of facilities operations and maintenance in healthcare?

Answer 1

Ans) The Toledo, Ohio-based health system operates 13 acute care hospitals, six ambulatory surgery centers and more than 300 other facilities, as well as a home health and hospice division. ManorCare will add scale across the post-acute and senior care spectrum, including 58 assisted living/memory care facilities, 160 post-acute facilities, and the Heartland home health and hospice business.

- ProMedica is not only a health system but is also an insurance provider covering about 600,000 lives. So, like Humana, owning the whole continuum of care theoretically enables the company to better manage its population of beneficiaries. ProMedica will seek to do so in large part by “blurring the lines” between acute care and post-acute care, CEO Randy Oostra told SHN.