Frequently Asked Questions:
Overview of Assisted Living Provider List. com (ALPL.com)
Who Uses ALPL.com
Why would someone want to use ALPL.com
Are You a Referral Agency
How Does ALPL.com Work?
How Does ALPL.com Differ From the Current Way to Fill a Vacancy?
Why is it Important to Have a Current List Online?
When is ALPL.com Available?
Who pays for ALPL’s List?
Where do the Placement Professionals work?
What are the Provider Types?
What is a Specialty Population?
Overview of Assisted Living Provider List. com (ALPL.com)
ALPL. com is an up to date vacancy listing of housing availability for the Assisted Living industry.
Who uses ALPL.com ?
ALPL.com serves Families, Social Workers and Placement Professionals as a tool to easily and conveniently find housing options for their clients.
ALPL.com serves Providers as a means to immediately and easily advertise a current opening.
Why would someone want to use ALPL. com?
It’s a great tool. When looking for options in assisted living, our site gives families and social workers easy access to Providers. Just “click” on the email address or website of the Provider.
No, we are an information listing service.
Providers are on a master list that can be broken down by Alphabet
Location
Population Specialty
Provider Type
Providers sign on; enter their current vacancy info onto a web form which includes a time frame for the listing. Providers need to renew this every few days to keep the list current.
Families and Placement Professional log onto the site, and it is much like looking for a hotel- sorting by Population Specialty, Location, Provider Type, Alphabetic.
How does ALPL. com differ from the current way to fill a vacancy?
Current methods are costly, cumbersome and staff time intensive.
Providers must use traditional marketing and advertising methods to contact the Placement Professionals. This method is unavailable to most small providers.
Placement Professionals typically use the phonebook or other list and start calling to inquire about vacancies.
Families new to the situation of needing assisted living need help in finding available choices.
Why is it important to have a current list online?
Elders often have a health event that makes immediate placement necessary, Placement Providers assist with this time sensitive task.
Families need a simple way to navigate the options in assisted living.
Providers need to fill their vacancies to maintain their revenue base.
The Assisted Living Provider List. com made its debut at the WALA 2008 Spring Conference. ALPL .com is currently developing its Provider base.
The ALPL. com service is FREE for Families and Placement Professionals.
Providers pay a nominal $75.00 yearly service fee.
Where do the Placement Professionals work?
Hospitals, County Placement Agencies for Adult or DD, Private Care Companies like Care Wisconsin, DD Service Brokers, and Families
AFH, Adult Family Home
CBRF, Community Based Retirement Facilities
RCAC, Residential Care Apartment Complex
NH, Nursing Home
Rehab Care Facility
What is a Specialty Population?
Primary health care need of the individual, such as
Elderly, Frail Elderly, Ambulatory/Non- Ambulatory, Failure to thrive
Physically Disabled,
Developmentally Disabled,
Mental Illness, Depression
Alzheimer’s, Dementia,
Brain Trauma,
Disease Management, Parkinson’s, Diabetes, Congestive Heart Disease, Etc.
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