Converting Facilities From Skilled Nursing to Behavioral Health May Save Money, Time

When it comes to creating new behavioral health facilities, buying used may be a better bet than building new. Adaptive reuse conversions involve transforming buildings previously used for another purpose into behavioral health facilities. An increasing portion of the facilities adapted to behavioral health uses are skilled nursing facilities (SNF) or assisted living facilities. If […]

Future Leader: Andrew Sfreddo, Senior Director & Head of Behavioral Healthcare, Blueprint, HCRE

The Future Leaders Awards program is brought to you in partnership with PointClickCare. The program is designed to recognize up-and-coming industry members who are shaping the next decade of behavioral health, senior housing, skilled nursing, home health, and hospice care. To see this year’s Future Leaders, visit https://futureleaders.agingmedia.com/. Andrew Sfreddo, Senior Director and Head of […]

REITs Are Making Moves in Behavioral Health — But Challenges Remain

Health care real estate investment trusts (REITs) have largely been absent from the behavioral health market, but major players have started to invest and could change the financing landscape for years to come. Health care REITs that have high exposure to senior housing and skilled nursing properties see similarities with the behavioral health space to […]

Mental Health Software Startup Blueprint Raises $3.4M

Blueprint — a software startup designed to help mental health clinicians — has raised $3.4 million in seed funding. The new financing brings the company’s total funding raised up to $4.7 million.  Based in Chicago, Blueprint is a technology company whose goal is to help mental health clinicians make informed treatment decisions using measurement-based care. […]