Solutions designed with your residents in mind

Our approach combines compassionate, on-site care with innovative support to strengthen resident outcomes and community sustainability.
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How we support your community

Our integrated model is built to meet the diverse needs of senior living communities.

  • On-site primary care and behavioral health services: Our primary care and behavioral health teams work within your community to deliver proactive, personalized care that keeps residents healthier and communities thriving.
  • Innovative payment models: Through our two Accountable Care Organizations—one Medicare Shared Savings Program (MSSP) and one in the Realizing Equity, Access, and Community Health (REACH) model—we help partners improve care quality while earning shared savings tied to better outcomes.
  • Medicare Advantage Special Needs Plans: We offer flexible partnership opportunities for communities interested in joining or launching Medicare Advantage Special Needs Plans tailored to their residents’ needs.

Every community is unique. We take the time to understand your goals, culture and team before creating a partnership plan just for you.

Proven results

Across the country, our partners are seeing measurable impact: healthier, more satisfied residents and staff, longer lengths of stay, fewer preventable ER visits and hospitalizations, and stronger financial performance. Because when care works better–for residents, staff, and communities–everyone thrives.

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“Curana Health has been an amazing partner ever since we started. We've been able to build relationships with the nurse practitioners, the physicians, the different clinicians in the behavioral health area, and have that open communication all the time. There's always dialogue that we are able to work through. We're able to collaborate if we have any questions, we're easy to group together and come to a good conclusion of what we need to go forward with. Just having them available and the relationship that we’ve built has been so impactful.”
-Samantha, Assisted Living Administrator
“Curana Health has helped a lot with making our lives easier. It's easy access, they're just a phone call away. They do onsite visits for the residents, which is wonderful because a lot of our residents can't get out due to the elderly population. With memory care, they started the behavioral health department, and that's been very helpful with managing the dementia and psych concerns that we have.”
-Kendra, Nurse Manager
“The number one question that we get from our clients is, what kind of healthcare services do you have? What doctors do you have? And we are thrilled to be able to say that we have Curana Health right on site, that we offer care services. It is the ability to have preventative care. It's a differentiator from other communities.”
-Wendy, Senior Living Sales Consultant
I’ll never forget one resident I connected with—we spent nearly an hour and a half sharing our life stories before reviewing her coverage. When she learned she qualified for a $0 premium and could receive all the additional benefits, she broke down in tears of joy. That moment reminded me exactly why I do this work.
-Destin, Medicare Benefit Consultant

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Derek Chao, MD

President and Chief Medical Officer
Dr. Chao brings more than two decades of experience in managed care, clinical leadership, and healthcare transformation to Curana Health. Starting his medical career as a hospitalist and nephrologist in Southern California, Dr. Chao has held various leadership positions (including medical director and chief medical officer) within numerous healthcare organizations (including HealthCare Partners). Before coming to Curana, he served as chief executive officer of Optum Health’s western region, where he oversaw operations and care delivery across nine states. Dr. Chao’s expertise spans a range of healthcare models, from fee-for-service to value-based care across Medicare, Medicaid, and commercial plans. His broad experience has honed his ability to lead both clinical and operational teams through the complexities of healthcare delivery models, and his professional insights are shaped not only by his clinical expertise, but also by personal experience (having witnessed firsthand the challenges his elderly parents faced in navigating the American healthcare system). At Curana Health, Dr. Chao leads efforts to empower the organization’s healthcare providers, optimize care delivery, and ensure clinicians have the tools and support needed to achieve exceptional outcomes for patients and operator partners alike.