Senior Care Path for Operators
Cut your supply costs, and fill your suites, with one independent partner.
Most group purchasing organizations are owned by your competitors or your food supplier, hide their fees, and ignore half of what you spend. We are independent, transparent, and non-exclusive, and we start by showing you exactly how much you are overpaying. Free.
No cost to join · No minimums · Keep your current GPO · Savings guarantee
You are probably "covered," and still overpaying.
Most operators already belong to a buying group and assume that means best pricing. It usually does not. Here is why.
Your GPO answers to someone else
The big senior-care buying groups are owned by competing operators or your food distributor. Their incentive is their parent's volume, not your margin.
The fees are hidden
Standard GPOs are paid by suppliers and rarely tell you how much. You cannot manage a cost you cannot see.
Half your spend is ignored
They are built around food. Your fastest-growing costs, from agency labour to technology, insurance, and energy, go unmanaged.
A group purchasing partner built around you, not the supplier.
Six things we do that a standard GPO structurally cannot.
We fill beds and cut costs
We are the platform families across Canada already use to choose care. No other buying group can send you qualified move-ins and lower your supply costs in one relationship, and one extra move-in is worth more than a year of supply savings.
Independent and transparent
We are not owned by an operator or a supplier. We disclose our fees, and on eligible categories we share the savings we generate, so our incentive is your bottom line.
Non-exclusive by design
Keep your current GPO. Use us for the categories they do not cover, or simply as a second bid to keep them honest. No rip-and-replace, no minimums, leave any time.
We specialize in what others ignore
Beyond consumables, we go after the categories your incumbent forgot: agency labour, technology, insurance, energy, and marketing, where the real savings hide.
Prove-it-first
We start with a free audit that benchmarks your invoices against hundreds of comparable homes. If we cannot beat your current pricing, you pay nothing and stay put.
Real data, not guesswork
Backed by Senior Care Path's network of 7,500+ providers, you get live benchmarking on what you pay versus the market, so you always know where you stand.
Incontinence and clinical consumables
We launch every operator in the category that is easiest to switch and where the savings are biggest and most predictable: incontinence products and the clinical and nursing consumables they sit within. For a typical 150-bed home this is $65,000 to $100,000 a year of spend, commoditized, bought every single day, and almost always overpriced when you buy it alone.
It is the perfect proof point: painless to change, quick to show savings, and no impact on care or menus. We prove the model here, then expand, on your timeline.
What is covered in this category
- Adult briefs and protective underwear
- Pads, liners, and underpads
- Exam and nitrile gloves
- Skin and incontinence-associated dermatitis care
- Wound-care supplies
- Nursing and med-surg consumables
- Personal-care and hygiene products
- Gowns and basic PPE
One category today. Your whole non-food spend over time.
We add categories one at a time, only after we have earned it, and always where the incumbents are weakest. You choose how far and how fast to go.
Incontinence and clinical consumablesAvailable
Briefs, pads, underpads, gloves, wound care, and nursing consumables. Your launch category and proof of savings.
Janitorial, environmental, and PPEBuilding
Cleaning chemicals, hygiene, sanitation, and personal protective equipment. Commoditized and just as painless to switch.
Agency and contract labour
Your number-one cost pressure. Pooled, pre-negotiated preferred rates with staffing agencies. The biggest prize of all, and the category no food-based GPO touches.
Technology and software
EHR and care-management platforms, family-communication apps, scheduling, nurse-call, and e-procurement. Group pricing on the modern stack.
Insurance, WSIB, and energy
Group programs for liability and benefits, WSIB advisory, and brokered electricity and natural-gas rates across the network.
Digital marketing and capital equipment
Occupancy-driving marketing services and preferred pricing on beds, lifts, furniture, and capital purchases.
How it works
From first invoice to first saving in weeks, with no commitment to find out.
Send one invoice
Share a recent incontinence or consumables invoice. That is all we need to start.
Get your free audit
We benchmark you against hundreds of comparable homes and show, line by line, where you are overpaying.
Switch and save
Move onto our pooled contracts through the distributors you already use. Savings land on your next invoices.
Expand on your terms
Add categories when you are ready. Keep your current GPO for the rest. Always non-exclusive.
Already get residents from Senior Care Path?
Then you already know us as the partner who fills your suites. Now we can lower your costs too, one relationship for both the top and bottom line. It is the second conversation, made easy.
Find out what you are overpaying, free.
Send us one recent supplier invoice and we will return a line-by-line savings estimate within a week. No cost, no obligation, no need to leave your current GPO.
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