2024 Business Goals

Margin

  1. Occupancy and rate recovery

      • Expand events to include prospects
      • Branching out to other senior groups and allowing them to host events in our communities. aka bridge clubs, men’s groups, outside bible studies etc.
      • Improve outcomes
        • Improve first impressions/curb appeal
        • Risk management for falls, skin, medication management
          • Continue to develop the regional wellness team to be strong in defining solutions when problems are identified.
      • Implement outreach and relationship building campaigns across all departments
    1. Payroll with Archer compliance (regional director of operations)

      • Need to eliminate agency
      • Drive consistency and compliance with company expectations
        • Budget adherence
        • When to use agency
        • Shift pick up bonuses
      • Engage employees to fill shifts without agency
        • Employee shift pick ups
        • Travel scheduling
        • PRN shift visibility
    2. Address care fee gaps (wellness service area)

      • CBA accuracy and POC documentation to capture needs
    3. AR Aging (internal operations support)

    4. Culinary expense control (culinary service area)

      • Culinary: transition from attempting to manage day-to-date operations at the community level to a more global program mindset.
    5. Turn on additional income streams

      • Are invoices coding to the new added charge codes?
      • Along with deploying the PCM model in the coming year, put more effort in readiness for attractiveness to advantage plans, consolidate vendors, etc.

Satisfaction driving retention (culture based)

  1. Continue the use of Activated Insights: adding to our Annual survey. Using it for move in, 90 day, and pulse surveys.
    1. Culture training to reduce grievances filed

    2. Overcome the home office vs community dynamic.

    3. Anniversary program

      • Enamel Pin
    4. Employee survey

      • Retaining employees will help reduce hiring costs and will give us the institutional knowledge needed to better onboard new employees and leaders.
      • Retention (Staff and longevity, incentive programs)
        • Career ladder: Leadership development program to help those interested in growing within the organization understand their path forward
        • Implement event involvement for line staff to increase engagement
      • Google Review campaign for Arrow by service area
    5. Set onboarding standards for new hires

    6. Residents survey

      • Improve service area culture toward internal and external customer satisfaction
      • Front of the house revamp and new roll out standards
      • Improve current traditions
      • Jolly Squad 2.0 and Centenarians Club
      • Create a bigger social media presence. Day in the Life presence?
    7. Joint Commission & ALZ Certification

Channels of Communication (collaborate with service areas)

    1. Home Office & Community Leadership Dashboards

      • Roles and responsibilities/Key accountabilities
        1. Develop one-on-one agenda/relevant topics per position
          • Business Plan implementation as a regular discussion point
        2. Alignment
          • COO will serve as Captain
          • C Suite will select new priorities across Arrow to ensure alignment
          • Overcoming the us vs. them (home office vs community management)
      • Skills mastery (take community examples)
        • Refine
      • Training defined
    2. Continuing to bridge the gap and improve communication not just within our department but across other departments.

      • Continue to collaborate with other departments on event programming.

Accountability: Defining KPIs

    1. Metrics Scorecard more widely used

      • Add new metrics
        1. Revenue / Unit
        2. AR Aging
        3. Food PRD
        4. Join Commission
        5. Archer Schedule Compliance
        6. First Impressions
      • Bonuses tied to performance
    2. End of month reporting

    3. Bringing all service areas onto KPIs

Workflow improvements

    1. Process standardization

    2. Define roles:

      • Create a phased approach to Executive Director onboarding. We are currently focused on the first 14 days or so but need to look beyond the initial experience and take it to the next level.
      • Clearly define the potential roles an Assistant Executive Director can hold in a community. This has been hanging out there for a bit mainly because this is a versatile position that we need to continue to use in that manner based on the needs of the community.
      • Clearly define the Resident Services Coordinator role.
    3. Define demos, pilots and roll-outs

    4. Archer

      • Move manual workflows into
        • Agency tracking
        • Shared payroll
        • Skills mastery
    5. Wellness Automation/Reporting:

      • Automated Monthly Wellness Visits
      • Revise helper report – at risk focus/QAPI
      • Revised wellness scorecard
    6. DSSI

      • Have all vendors through DSSI to capture all expenses more timely
        1. Culinary move towards company wide vendors/partnerships
    7. First impression

    8. Night cleaning checklist

    9. Transportation

    10. Special Care & Path

    11. Move-In Coordination

      • Helping families with emotional transition (ex: move-in to MC or transfer)
    12. Integrate AI into our processes

    13. Streamline creative requests and marketing workflow to hit deadlines

    14. Automating the renewal and insurance process to reduce the manual administrative work required.

    15. Streamline accounting process

      • Better define role of Internal Operations
        • See more detail in bulleted item below
      • Accounts Payable Improvement
        • Build efficiencies in accounts payable processing to allow us to manage more communities without adding staff
        • AP automation solution to streamline the process and also reduce fraud.  Possibly save money on the check, envelope, stamp costs, and overhead of doing it.
          • Review of cost/benefit of outsourcing our AP to a 3rd party vendor or bank provided system
        • Have all contracts updated and maintained in Sage and develop a sustainable process for contracts to lower liability risk of not having visibility of our commitments and to lessen the payroll hours needed to manage any due diligence items in regard to contracts.
      • Continue to restructure the accounting department and grow the Financials Coordinators to a higher level and transition more items to internal operations. Cross train and grow the Internal Operations team to better assist at all areas of the company

Arrow App powered by Cubigo

    1. To create excitement and buy-in, we will be referring to Cubigo as the Arrow App consistently throughout the organization.

    2. Grow resident use

      • Use the Arrow App as a direct line of contact with family members and residents.
    3. Grow employee use

      • Streamline our processes and how we can record and use the metrics to align our communities

 

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