myPlace Well being – a SCAN Group and the Commonwealth Care Alliance-backed PACE group – has opened its first care centre.

Nevertheless, Robbie Pottharst, CEO of myPlace Well being, emphasised that the corporate's healthcare supply mannequin is way broader than this one heart.

The enterprise mannequin has been tailored to ship care tailor-made to the wants of every participant.

“Because the PACE mannequin has developed, because the trade has developed, we all know we have to be sure that the identical stage of care and experiences is introduced not solely as a bodily heart, but additionally past the group,” Pottharst mentioned.

The middle shall be situated close to downtown Los Angeles, permitting it to achieve greater than 17,000 PACE-eligible seniors. This location was a strategic choice to extend entry to care.

“We used many alternative layers of each quantitative and qualitative assessments to have a look at the place the best want is, which communities want the best funding in one thing like this and the place do those that qualify for PACE keep,” Pottharst mentioned.

Having SCAN Group and the Commonwealth Care Alliance as funders has additionally been a key differentiator.

In the end, SCAN Group has deep data of the LA market and relationships with suppliers within the area, which has allowed myPlace Well being to construct its community.

Moreover, SCAN Group and the Commonwealth Care Alliance each have a status for organizing and delivering high-quality take care of populations similar to myPlace Well being, Pottharst mentioned.

“Their insights into the folks, the method, the know-how and all the platform we constructed have been extremely useful,” he mentioned.

Total, partnerships are an integral a part of myPlace Well being's healthcare supply mannequin. This implies working with hospitals, group clinics and extra.

“When PACE organizations get began, they’re typically competing with everybody,” Pottharst mentioned. “They're competing with the plans, the opposite suppliers out there and even some CBOs which are doing incredible work. That isn’t our method. One of many methods we predict the core mission of the PACE mannequin is fulfilled is by forming deep collaborations and partnerships with a few of the organizations which are already deep in these communities.”

Wanting forward, myPlace Well being desires to proceed to develop. In a 12 months, the group plans to open one other heart that can serve the southern a part of LA County.

“We’re firstly of the expansion of this mannequin, and others, which are desperately wanted as an answer to getting older as our society continues to age,” Pottharst mentioned.