Strategy and master plan for healthcare company Sakura

Möbius assists residential care centers in Belgium with defining a care strategy and associated master plan in the context of new construction and renovation projects.

Care Company Sakura

On January 1, 2018, OCMW Lokeren and OCMW Moerbeke-Waas started the Care Company Sakura. This care association operates the residential care facilities of both administrations as an autonomous public legal entity. The name Sakura, Japanese for cherry, symbolizes the 'tree of life'. At the same time, sa cura refers to "caring for together," which fits perfectly with Sakura's mission: together with staff, volunteers and informal caregivers, to provide optimal care for the elderly in the community.

Sakura has more than 300 staff members and provides residential care to 450 elderly people spread across three campuses: Lokeren, Eksaarde and Moerbeke-Waas.

Care strategy and infrastructure

The infrastructure of the residential care center in Eksaarde dates back to the 1990s and no longer met the needs of residents and staff. A future-oriented approach required a care strategy and an infrastructure master plan.

Möbius is specialized in strategy consulting in the care sector, and has guided Sakura in a participatory process. Here management, nurses and administrators were maximally involved in the development of a care strategy plan that takes into account:

Optimal use of accreditations between the three residential care centers for operational and financial efficiency.
Balance between small-scale care for residents and economies of scale at the site level.
Ability to work with specific target groups.
Trade-off between new construction of a new residential care center and partial renovation of existing buildings.

Möbius succeeded in clarifying a complex and difficult subject in a very committed manner.

Bart D’hanis Managing Director, Sakura

Approach: From scenarios to master plan

Möbius followed a structured approach to tackle Sakura's strategic challenges:

Defining strategic outlines

A project group, start-up meetings and site visits provided insight into the organisation and buildings. Workshops were used to formulate the strategic guidelines that formed the basis of the master plan.

Developing scenarios

Various scenarios were developed with a view to financial and operational optimisation. Each scenario was assessed in terms of structural feasibility, staffing, daily rates and accreditations for the three residential care centres. Unfeasible scenarios were discarded.

Exploring scenarios

A rough programme of requirements was drawn up for the remaining scenarios: required capacity, support areas and integration with existing infrastructure. Design workshops divided these spatially between renovation and new construction. At the same time, scenarios were quantified in terms of capacity, staffing and cost price.

Converging towards a single master plan

The preferred scenario was selected and further refined in workshops. The result: an integrated strategic care and infrastructure master plan with phasing, financing and programme requirements.

Result: Future-oriented residential care centre

Thanks to the collaboration with Möbius, Sakura now has:

Clear strategic guidelines for residential elderly care.
A concrete strategic care master plan that translates the organisation's vision into physical infrastructure.
A future-proof new residential care centre with optimal design and use of resources.

Möbius supports organisations such as Sakura thanks to its in-depth experience in healthcare consultancy, care strategy and strategy consulting, with the aim of providing sustainable and future-oriented solutions for healthcare.