Assisted living and residential care

Senior housing operations software that keeps assessment, level of care and rate in agreement

Senior housing operations is the day to day running of assisted living, independent living and residential care communities: resident assessments, level of care, staffing, census, billing and state survey readiness. The CDC counted 32,200 residential care communities with 1,313,600 licensed beds in 2022, alongside 14,700 nursing homes, and licensing rules differ in every state. Neurobird holds the assessment, the level of care, the rate and the review date on one resident record.

Executive director reviewing resident care plans at an assisted living community nurses station
The assessment says one thing. The invoice says another.
32,200US residential care communities
1,313,600licensed beds
14,700nursing homes on top of that

Neurobird Senior Housing Operations in short

  • Set the level of care from the assessment and carry it straight through to the rate
  • Track care plan review dates so nothing goes past due without somebody seeing it
  • Keep census, move ins, move outs and acuity in one place instead of a monthly rebuild
  • 32,200 Residential care communities counted in the United States in 2022, holding 1,313,600 licensed beds. Assisted living is licensed at state level, so operating requirements change across state lines. CDC NCHS FastStats, residential care
  • 14,700 Nursing homes in the United States in 2022, with about 1.6 million licensed beds and 1.2 million residents. Many operators run both models inside one portfolio and one back office. CDC NCHS FastStats, nursing home care
  • Pricing runs 200 to 760 US dollars per month across 3 tiers. Early access is free.
The daily reality

What senior housing operators actually deal with

Level of care drives the rate, and the assessment that sets it lives in a binder while the rate lives in the billing system.
Census, staffing and acuity move every week, and the report the owner wants gets assembled by hand every month.
A state survey asks for care plan review dates and someone spends 2 days pulling paper to prove they happened.

Why it stays broken

Assisted living is licensed state by state, so the operating rules for a 120 apartment community in one state do not travel across the line. Operators end up with a billing system, a clinical binder and a spreadsheet, and the join happens in the executive director's head.

A level of care change that never reaches billing is roughly $900 a month given away, every month, quietly.

Additionally, compliance is a major portion of the work of all intermediaries that often diverts time and resources away from serving seniors and improving operations.

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What it does

Neurobird Senior Housing Operations Document Automation Platform

Make the assessment the thing that sets the rate rather than a document that suggests one. Census, staffing and survey evidence then read from the same record instead of being rebuilt.

  • 1Set the level of care from the assessment and carry it straight through to the rate
  • 2Track care plan review dates so nothing goes past due without somebody seeing it
  • 3Keep census, move ins, move outs and acuity in one place instead of a monthly rebuild
  • 4Hold survey evidence where a surveyor can be shown it, not where it has to be reconstructed

What changes with Neurobird Senior Housing Operations?

The same work, read left to right: how it runs today, and how it runs once the record is in one place.

Senior housing operations: current practice compared with Neurobird Senior Housing Operations
TodayWith Neurobird Senior Housing Operations
Level of care drives the rate, and the assessment that sets it lives in a binder while the rate lives in the billing systemSet the level of care from the assessment and carry it straight through to the rate
Census, staffing and acuity move every week, and the report the owner wants gets assembled by hand every monthTrack care plan review dates so nothing goes past due without somebody seeing it
A state survey asks for care plan review dates and someone spends 2 days pulling paper to prove they happenedKeep census, move ins, move outs and acuity in one place instead of a monthly rebuild

Who is this for?

Same resident record, three different pressures.

Single community

You are the executive director

You are clinical lead, sales lead and operator at once. You need the assessment and the rate to stay in step without a monthly audit.

Regional operator

You run 8 to 20 communities

Consistency is the product. You need the same assessment feeding the same rate logic in every building, and a roll up you can trust.

Multi state portfolio

You cross state lines

Every state licenses differently. You need per state rule sets so a new community does not start from a blank page.

How does Neurobird Senior Housing Operations work?

  1. Assess once

    The move in and change of condition assessments set the level of care directly, with the reasoning attached rather than summarised later.

  2. Rate follows the level

    A level change generates the rate change and the resident notice together, so clinical and billing cannot drift apart.

  3. Survey evidence stands ready

    Care plan review dates, incident follow up and corrective actions live against the resident, so a surveyor is shown records rather than promised them.

What running senior housing actually involves

Useful if you are opening a community or standardising across a portfolio. Each source links out.

32,200

Residential care communities counted in the United States in 2022, holding 1,313,600 licensed beds. Assisted living is licensed at state level, so operating requirements change across state lines.

CDC NCHS FastStats, residential care
14,700

Nursing homes in the United States in 2022, with about 1.6 million licensed beds and 1.2 million residents. Many operators run both models inside one portfolio and one back office.

CDC NCHS FastStats, nursing home care
483

42 CFR Part 483 sets federal requirements for long term care facilities: comprehensive assessment, care planning, staffing and quality assurance. Assisted living sits outside it, which is exactly why the tooling fits badly.

eCFR, 42 CFR Part 483
365 days

Certified facilities report direct care staffing for every day of the year from payroll data, so staffing became an auditable number rather than a self reported one.

CMS, certification and compliance
2050

Census projections put the US population aged 65 and over at roughly 82 million by 2050. Demand is not the constraint on this business. Operating capacity is.

US Census Bureau, older population
Interactive preview

The community, resident by resident

A working preview. Tick an item to move the resident record forward.

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Senior housing operations software questions, answered

Key terms

What are senior housing operations?
Senior housing operations are the day to day running of assisted living, independent living and residential care communities: resident assessments, level of care, staffing, census, billing and survey readiness. The CDC counted 32,200 residential care communities with 1,313,600 licensed beds in the United States in 2022.

Is assisted living regulated federally or by the state?

Assisted living and residential care are licensed at state level, so requirements for assessment, staffing and medication management change every time you cross a line. Skilled nursing is different: certified nursing facilities answer to 42 CFR Part 483 as well as the state.

Why does level of care matter so much?

Because it is both a clinical and a financial decision. The assessment sets the level, the level sets the rate, and if the change never reaches billing you keep giving care you are not paid for. It is the single most common leak in an assisted living P and L.

How does this relate to skilled nursing software?

Most clinical software was built for skilled nursing, where 42 CFR Part 483 and payroll based staffing reporting drive the design. Assisted living has different rules, smaller teams and no federal survey, so operators end up with a system that fits badly or 3 spreadsheets that fit worse.

Does this replace our billing system?

No. Invoicing and the general ledger stay where they are. What lives here is the resident record: assessment, level of care, rate, review dates and survey evidence, joined so billing gets the change the day it is made.

Why we are building this

Senior housing carries the operational weight of healthcare and the software of a small business. The assessment is a clinical judgement that is also a pricing decision, and in most communities those 2 things live in different rooms.

That gap is where care gets given away, where review dates slip, and where a state survey turns into 2 days of paper hunting.

We would rather build this with people who run communities than with people who sell to them. Tell us how yours works, and where we have got it wrong.

Neurobird Team neurobird.com

Where the requirement comes from

Public sources on how long term care is regulated and counted.

How much does Neurobird Senior Housing Operations cost?

Priced per community because that is how licensing, staffing and surveys work. Residents and users are unlimited on every tier.

Single community
$200
per community, per month
  • Resident records
  • Assessment to level of care
  • Care plan review tracking
  • Census view
  • Email support
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Operator
$430
per community, per month
  • Everything in Single community
  • Rate change workflow
  • Incident and follow up log
  • Survey evidence pack
  • Named contact
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Portfolio
$760
per community, per month
  • Everything in Operator
  • Multi state rule sets
  • Regional roll up reporting
  • Billing system sync
  • Onboarding included
Talk to us
First 20 operators get early access pricing locked for three years

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If you run a community, tell us how a level of care change reaches billing today and how often it does not.

Straight answer on where this is: In development. Early access gets the working preview, a say in what ships first, and early access pricing. It does not get you a login today.

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