sbdcsierra Chapter 21 Current Status of Nursing Homes
Chapter 21 Current Status of Nursing Homes
"Let's first see how much potential we can tap into in the nursing home."
Zhang Yang rubbed his temples, feeling a bit of a headache, and said...
He never expected that simply mentioning how to make the nursing home more money would result in them immediately painting him a rosy picture of going public and raising funds.
The leap was far too large, so large that he didn't even know whether he should step forward with his left or right foot first.
How many vacant beds are currently available in nursing homes? What are the approximate fees for other privately-run nursing homes?
After calming himself down, Zhang Yang turned to Li Xiaoyun and asked.
"There aren't many empty beds left."
Li Xiaoyun released her grip on Old Mrs. Chen's hand, sat up straight, and said, "The nursing home provides accommodation for the elderly on the second and third floors."
"There are a total of 16 rooms across the two floors, and there are currently 6 vacant rooms remaining..."
She gave Zhang Yang a detailed account of the current situation in the nursing home.
The 15 elderly residents are mostly single.
Including a few other elderly people who don't mind sharing, we now have a total of 5 single rooms and 5 double rooms rented out.
The remaining 6 rooms are slightly worse; there is only one south-facing double room left, and the other 5 are single rooms facing north.
That makes a total of 7 beds, but this is a relatively spacious arrangement for the elderly.
If you really want to squeeze in, it's not impossible to turn a large double room into a triple room or a single room into a double room.
However, it remains to be seen whether this will lead to a drop in the satisfaction level of residents in nursing homes.
As for the pricing...
"The elderly in the nursing home are charged according to the public standard, which is quite different from the private nursing homes outside."
Li Xiaoyun frowned and thought for a moment: "Just the room rate alone would be about double. A double room here is 500 a month, and a single room is only 800."
"But I heard that there are retirement apartments outside now, and even double rooms cost more than 1000 yuan a month for a single person."
"There are also meal and nursing care fees. Because of government subsidies, the prices here are relatively low."
"The meal fee is 150 per month, and the nursing care fee is divided into three levels: 100 per month for ordinary elderly people and 250 per month for disabled elderly people."
"So low?" Zhang Yang blinked after hearing her words.
The price was undoubtedly much lower than he had imagined.
Leaving aside the room fee, the food fee is 150 yuan per month, which is only 5 yuan per day?
A meal costs less than two yuan?
He thought about that breakfast earlier and suddenly began to question the meaning of life.
Isn't such a low meal price a bit disrespectful to the chefs who run state banquets?
Moreover, at 150 yuan per person, the total cost for 15 people is only 4500 yuan.
This amount of money isn't even enough to pay the chef's salary, is it?
The nursing care fee is only 100 yuan a month, and even for disabled elderly people, it is only 250 yuan a month.
So, if we calculate it this way, the 15 elderly people in the nursing home will only receive about 2000 yuan.
"How much is the government subsidy?"
Zhang Yang then asked another question.
No matter how he thought about it, something felt off. Even if the nursing home didn't make money from those two areas, it couldn't possibly be losing money on them, could it?
"Meal expenses are subsidized at a rate of 10 yuan per person per day, based on a standard of 15 yuan per person. Nursing care expenses are subsidized a total of 2,000 yuan per month."
After hearing Li Xiaoyun's words, Zhang Yang was even more confused.
After the meal allowance, the total monthly cost is 13,000 yuan, and the nursing care fee is only around 4000 yuan...
"I remember there are four caregivers in our facility, right? How much are your salaries? And Mr. Xu, since you're in charge of the cafeteria, how much do you earn approximately each month?"
Zhang Yang looked at everyone with a puzzled expression and asked.
"Hehe, I'm just helping out for free since I have nothing else to do. My apprentices and grand-apprentices take turns helping me, and I give them a small fee each month, about two thousand yuan a month."
Grandma Xu, who had been sitting there silently, smiled and said nonchalantly.
"My caregiver salary is higher, 1,000 yuan per month, while the other four are 800 yuan per month..."
After hearing these words, Zhang Yang fell silent.
He had considered that there would be a price difference between the two eras, but he didn't expect it to be this big.
He was quite happy to hear that the nursing home was profitable every month, and even thought about paying himself a salary of several thousand yuan.
But now that he hears this, how could he dare to think that way anymore?
This young woman works three shifts to care for the elderly and only earns 1,200 yuan a month, while other caregivers only earn 900 yuan.
The state banquet chef is in charge of the canteen or he helps out voluntarily; I guess the elderly man who works part-time as an accountant is probably in a similar situation.
Otherwise, just paying their salaries would probably cause the nursing home to lose money every month.
In this situation, if he dared to pay himself a salary of several thousand yuan, the satisfaction of these employees and residents would probably plummet.
What's even more troublesome is the current predicament faced by nursing homes.
The monthly profit is only a few thousand yuan, but after more than half a year, there will be an expenditure of 200,000 yuan.
If we can't raise this money, the damage to the house could result in losses of tens of millions, and we might even lose the entire villa and end up owing a hundred million...
Just thinking about it makes one feel somewhat hopeless.
However, this only fueled Zhang Yang's fighting spirit.
Alone and without parental care at such a young age, he was forced to learn independence early on.
Compared to those days a few years ago, what is this now?
Even though he got into university with the help of kind people and the government, no matter how hard he studied, the future still seemed bleak.
I don't even know if I'll be unemployed after graduation.
At least he still has this villa worth hundreds of millions in front of him. As long as he can find a way to overcome the current difficulties, the house will belong to him in ten years.
What reason is there not to give it your all?
"Nursing homes still need to find ways to make money."
Zhang Yang frowned and said something.
The nursing home is already doing well just to be profitable. Trying to cut costs any further is impossible; otherwise, the elderly staff and residents would definitely rebel.
Then the only option is to find ways to increase revenue through open-source channels.
"I do have two..."
He was about to speak up about the solution he had been thinking about for a long time that morning when he was interrupted before he could finish speaking.
"Want to make money? That's easy..."
Then, Old Mrs. Chen, who was standing to the side, said with a smile.
"Forehead……"
Seeing the old lady smiling happily with her eyes narrowed, Zhang Yang was momentarily speechless. He was all too familiar with that smile; it was exactly the same as the one from last night.
That old lady definitely didn't have any good intentions!
"The cost is ultimately borne by the consumer, so why not just raise prices?"
After Old Mrs. Chen finished speaking, not only Zhang Yang, but even Chef Xu and Mr. Zhou looked at her in astonishment.
Did they voluntarily request a price increase?
What's going on?