Moderator: Thanks so much for joining us today. We’ll get started in just about one minute. (silence) Thanks so much for joining us today. We’ll get started in about one minute. All right, well hello and welcome to today’s webinar. Thank you so much for joining us. My name is Julie Senesac and I’m the digital marketing manager here at Hall Render. And I’ll be here in the background answering any questions. Today we’re presenting housing strategies to improve employee recruitment, retention and overall health, presented by Hall Render attorney Danielle Bergner. Just a little housekeeping before we get started. If you have any questions during the presentation, please go ahead and type them into the Q&A box in your Zoom control panel. We will have some time towards the end for questions. Any questions we don’t have time to address today, we’ll make sure to follow up with you via email. Now I’m going to turn things over to our presenter, Danielle Bergner.

Danielle Bergner: Thank you, and thank you everyone for joining today. We have great interest in this topic as I’m gathering from the registrations for the program today, I hope we all find some great information. Let me advance my slide here. First, just a little bit about Hall Render, Hall Render Advisory Services, and myself. I have actually worked in the housing industry for about 17 years now. Most recently here with Hall Render, advising hospitals and health systems nationally on a range of real estate issues, including housing strategies and action plans. Hall Render, and Hall Render Advisory Services, we like to say we focus our services as an extension of your in-house team. We have lawyers and non lawyers who partner to coach and advise our clients through real estate challenges with pragmatic objective and conflict free advice that has earned us the trust of hospital and health system clients nationally.

Danielle Bergner: I’ll start with a brief program overview. We’re really focusing today on housing as it impacts the issue of employee recruitment, retention and overall wellbeing for hospitals and health systems. This is the second in our housing as healthcare series. And we are focusing today specifically on employee housing, because it has become such a critical tipping point issue for so many of our clients around the country. So first we’ll talk a little bit about, what is the problem? Well, how does this dovetail with other staffing challenges that healthcare is facing right now? We’ll talk a little bit about how this is a two-pronged problem, lack of affordable housing versus lack of available housing. Which are two distinct issues that we have to understand at the outset of developing any strategy. And then we’ll finish the program today with a summary of actual strategies that hospitals around the country are using and have been using for quite a period of time now in some cases.

Danielle Bergner: We will focus today on the concept of permanent housing options for employees. I emphasize permanent because there are other temporary housing strategies, some of which I’m sure many of you are familiar with. Things like renting rooms and hotels with surplus capacity, trailer type housing accommodations. Those are topics we will not be covering today. Today’s focus is really on the concept of permanent housing solutions for hospital and healthcare employees. So first, we are, as an industry in a cr