NuCare Senior Dwelling added 12 new communities in new markets final 12 months. This 12 months, the corporate is popping its focus to solidifying operations.
That’s in accordance with CEO Joel Moyer, a former govt with Brookdale Senior Dwelling (NYSE: BKD), Encore Senior Dwelling and the Wisconsin Assisted Dwelling Affiliation who based the operator in 2023.
In 2026, NuCare now operates 24 properties in Florida, Minnesota and Wisconsin after including 12 communities below administration final 12 months. Previously, Moyer has described NuCare as a “boutique” supplier of assisted dwelling and reminiscence care.
“We grew considerably in 2025 and now in 2026 we’re centered on getting issues so as at these properties, getting them standardized and up-to-speed on operations transferring ahead,” Moyer instructed SHN.
This effort on standardization throughout newly onboarded properties consists of adapting to new digital well being file (EHR) and digital treatment administration file (eMAR) methods for on-site employees. NuCare can also be within the means of evaluating built-in fall administration know-how and resident well being monitoring to assist enhance high quality of life for residents at its communities, Moyer mentioned.
“Our focus continues to be on reminiscence care and higher-acuity residents oftentimes in smaller settings, and due to that we’re all the time trying to discover progressive know-how to help in our well being care monitoring efforts,” Moyer mentioned.
NuCare leaders are additionally reviewing a brand new AI-supported medical evaluation course of to convey scientific and medicine information to bear for enhancing high quality of care supply and coordination. The evaluation instrument makes use of resident well being and engagement information to create a scientific resident profile “in a matter of minutes as a substitute of hours” to supply in-depth care evaluation for residents.
To search out new employees certified to work in NuCare communities, Moyer mentioned the corporate now depends on AI-supported recruitment software program in a position to compile candidates, whereas additionally adjusting pay scales for workforce members from administrative to scientific roles.
“We’ve made certain to reward these which might be doing nicely and that after we recruit, we’ve sought the best-in-class and we’ve seen that make an enormous distinction in our general efficiency,” Moyer mentioned.
Final 12 months when the corporate expanded to Florida, NuCare partnered with a senior dwelling advisor within the state to facilitate the transition of operations below the operator’s banner, whereas charting regulatory and reimbursement state-related processes. An identical partnership acquired underway in Minnesota when NuCare created NuCare Minnesota after teaming up with two operators primarily based within the state.
“Whenever you put collectively the precise management workforce, they rent the precise individuals to supply the help for the care and the care employees and others to have the ability to do their jobs the proper means,” Moyer mentioned of the corporate’s multi-state progress push.
The sturdy M&A market in 2025 may propel NuCare to extra progress this 12 months, however Moyer mentioned the corporate is not going to develop to new states too rapidly. Rising in new states dependent upon discovering certified govt management expertise with information of working regionally. With out these issues, any enlargement would “wrestle via the beginning up course of,” Moyer mentioned.
Because of elevated M&A requirement, the state licensing course of in Wisconsin has prolonged from a typical three-month course of to over 9 months in some circumstances.
“It’s been essential for us to be very selective in our progress,” Moyer mentioned. “We’re speaking to individuals about new alternatives for administration contracts or potential acquisitions however we’re extra selective than ever.”
Within the push to standardize operations, care and companies, Moyer sees the chance so as to add new coaching for workers in 2026 whereas monitoring traits like AI use in senior dwelling and the trade’s rising information evaluation efforts.
