In this podcast Dan Strittmater, who is a Vice President for Monarch Healthcare Management shares the multitude of opportunities and challenges that exist within the senior care industry. Monarch has been around for around seven years with a plan to acquire nursing homes in the same geographic area with the hope of getting them to work together better. Monarch has been a strong partner for our Alliance including the sponsoring of this podcast. Having just purchased three new sites In St Louis Park opens the mind for how to reimagine how each site might deliver more specific kinds of care, thus improving the quality of care across the organization. Monarch has stepped up in many ways to take a leadership role including the work they are doing to support our CNA pathway out of the St Louis Park High School. Dan shares three challenges; first is staffing, being innovative and adaptive and finally being more aware of the complexities of the various diagnosis that are now being housed in these sites. Any fire chief looking to consider this work in their community should look for great community partners like Monarch Healthcare Management.