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Retirement Community Healthcare Integration Consultants
Providing expert advice to leaders of retirement communities and liaising with local community medical practices and hospitals, resulting in efficient and effective care delivered to residents via integration of medical services on-site.
ABOUT US
Committed to Excellence
Independent and assisted living retirement community leaders are tasked with identifying, contracting, and managing local healthcare services for their communities. However, it is exceedingly difficult to know whether you are getting the optimal services for your facility, and multiple medical services must be properly managed to work together harmoniously. Shirley Gillies, NP, PhD, and Dr. Robert O’Connor, MD, CMD, have spent years as Geriatric Medicine providers and clinical directors. Tailoring delivery of on-site medical care to the needs of each retirement community they serve is integral to their practice. Bringing excellent, cohesive care to older adults is their passion.
Integration of Healthcare for Seniors: Our Mission
People enter retirement communities full of expectations: expectations of a worry-free retirement, expectations of exceptional service, expectations of a transition to a setting that frees them to experience life with a newfound freedom. Creating excellent community and individual experiences is at the forefront of many facilities that cater to our aging population. Often accompanying is the expectation that healthcare will be integrated into the experience that the facility provides in a way that is seamless, personal, and high quality. Consumeraffairs.com cites lack of medical care in assisted living settings as the #1 disadvantage of assisted living*. Delivering on those expectations is challenging.
OUR APPROACH
OUR WORK PROCESS
Every facility grows a community of residents with a unique culture that comes with a diverse set of needs and challenges. Retirement Community Healthcare Integration Consultants aims to address these challenges by integrating healthcare at your facility. We start by building a detailed understanding of your facility by spending time with your department directors and team members. We then guide you through the creation of a healthcare delivery system within your facility that is mutually beneficial among your facility's leadership, employees, resident population and healthcare providers.
OUR EXPERTS
Meet Your Expert Consultants
Dr. O’Connor earned his medical degree at Albany Medical College and completed his Internal Medicine residency through Harvard Medical School at Mount Auburn hospital, where he also served as chief resident. He finished his post-graduate training in Geriatric Medicine at Massachusetts General Hospital.
Dr. O’Connor is board certified in Internal and Geriatric Medicine and practices across the spectrum of care including:
1) Retirement community at the independent living, assisted living, and memory care levels
2) Skilled nursing and rehabilitation
3) Outpatient clinic
4) Inpatient services
He is a certified medical director and serves as both the Skilled Nursing and Campus Medical Director for a continuing care retirement community. Having built the health care delivery system at a CCRC, Dr. O'Connor’s knowledge base uniquely positions him as an expert in the field and the transitions through multiple levels of the healthcare system.
Dr. O’Connor
Professor Gillies is entering her 40 th year of nursing practice. She rose through the ranks from Diploma RN to PhD with a multitude of experiences from owning her own homecare consulting business to critical care nursing—to affiliate assistant professor to serving on the advisory panel for the board of nursing in
Massachusetts, guest speaker at Schwartz Rounds and mentor to graduate students .—She has been witness to multiple changes in healthcare and how it influences the delivery of care. Prof. Gillies, is well rounded and positioned to provide expert advice on the multiple dimensions involved with caring for the older adult in the community.
Professor Gillies
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