SHIFT Model
WEL’s New Model for Delivering Senior Housing and Health Care: Senior Health & Housing Initiative for Transformation (SHIFT)
We believe SHIFT is a model that could potentially be adapted to a much broader
constituency. SHIFT would funnel federal, state and private funding streams through a capitated continuing care retirement community (CCRC) model to meet and pay for the needs of seniors now falling through the cracks.
We suggest that SHIFT results in:
- Improved access for the vast population of seniors who are not at the upper end of the economic spectrum
- Provider flexibility and incentive to spend funds in a manner that reduces overall cost to the system by delivering services in an optimal manner and achieving superior outcomes
- More effective chronic disease management and/or a deferral of the onset of those chronic and fatal disease states through effective prevention programs
- The ability to address the challenges of isolation, nutrition and depression amongst elders
- A possible expansion of Medicaid funding beyond skilled nursing, simultaneously reducing overall Medicaid spending
- A reduction in the costs of providing health care for those being served under this model. These expenditures would be less than payments for an equivalent group under a fee-for-service Medicare program
We are proposing to test these beliefs through a pilot program. Once complete,
with our research and results published and presented to governmental entities,
we believe the outcome will be a paradigm shift in the way funding streams for
aging services are directed.
For more information how you can become involved in partnership and development opportunities for SHIFT, please contact:
Jeff A. Petty
President and CEO
Southampton Office Park
928 Jaymor Road, Suite B-150
Southampton, PA 18966
Telephone: 215-354-3199
Email: jpetty@wel.org
