--- title: "65% Fewer Outbreak Weeks, 65% Lower Wage Premiums, 34% Lower PPE Spend: Novem Helps Regional Seniors Living Operator Reduce Respiratory Risk | Novem" description: Novem helps seniors living operators identify higher-risk building conditions earlier, reduce avoidable cost, and protect continuity for residents, staff, and families. image: https://www.novemdigital.com/hubfs/novem-resources/pr-seniors-living-65-percent.jpeg --- [![Novem](https://www.novemdigital.com/hubfs/raw_assets/public/NovemZulbera_27/images/logo.png) NOVEM](https://www.novemdigital.com/) [Platform](https://www.novemdigital.com/platform/) [Industries](https://www.novemdigital.com/industries/) [TCRO](https://www.novemdigital.com/tcro/) [Partners](https://www.novemdigital.com/partners/) [Resources](https://www.novemdigital.com/resources/) [About](https://www.novemdigital.com/about/) Contact Us [![Novem](https://www.novemdigital.com/hubfs/raw_assets/public/NovemZulbera_27/images/logo.png) NOVEM](https://www.novemdigital.com/) [Platform](https://www.novemdigital.com/platform/) [Industries](https://www.novemdigital.com/industries/) [TCRO](https://www.novemdigital.com/tcro/) [Partners](https://www.novemdigital.com/partners/) [Resources](https://www.novemdigital.com/resources/) [About](https://www.novemdigital.com/about/) Contact Us ![Resident embracing a grandchild in a sunlit seniors living lounge](https://www.novemdigital.com/hubfs/novem-resources/pr-seniors-living-65-percent.jpeg) Press Release # 65% Fewer Outbreak Weeks, 65% Lower Wage Premiums, 34% Lower PPE Spend: Novem Helps Regional Seniors Living Operator Reduce Respiratory Risk Press Release February 20, 2026 4 min read By Novem Press ReleaseSeniors Living Share Download PDF *Novem helps seniors living operators identify higher-risk building conditions earlier, reduce avoidable cost, and protect continuity for residents, staff, and families.* **VANCOUVER, British Columbia, February 20, 2026:** Novem helps institutional real estate and seniors living operators make building failure predictable. The company combines live environmental and building data with historical loss intelligence to show leaders where hidden risk is building, what it could cost, and what action to take before disruption occurs. Today, Novem announced that a regional seniors living operator reduced respiratory outbreak weeks by 65%, cut outbreak-related wage premiums by 65%, and lowered PPE spending by 34% through continuous air quality monitoring and predictive analytics. Predictive environmental monitoring means using live air quality and building data to identify higher-risk conditions before they contribute to outbreaks, disruption, and avoidable cost. In seniors living, that matters because the impact of poor environmental conditions is not only financial. It also affects residents, care teams, family visits, and trust in the organization. The operator also recorded 0 respiratory outbreak weeks in the final year of the program, the first such result in more than seven years. Novem is defining a new category in the market: a Property Risk Platform for institutional real estate and insurance. In practical terms, that means turning invisible environmental and equipment risk into early warning signals that leadership can act on. The result is better control over operating cost, stronger governance, and more confidence in the decisions made across operations, capital planning, and insurance. Respiratory infections are a persistent challenge in long-term care. A published peer-reviewed systematic review found reported incidence estimates ranging from 1.1% to 85.2% across respiratory infection types in long-term care facilities, highlighting how variable and disruptive outbreaks can be for older adult populations. That is why earlier visibility into environmental conditions matters both operationally and financially. For seniors living operators, the full financial burden of failure extends beyond one incident. It can include wage premiums, PPE spend, crisis-driven labor, service disruption, regulatory exposure, insurance pressure, and reputational cost. Novem refers to that broader burden as Total Cost of Risk Ownership (TCRO). Approximately 200 residents and 110 employees directly benefited from the improvement in operating conditions and outbreak control. For this operator, recurring respiratory outbreaks had created both financial pressure and operational instability. Novem helped leadership move from reactive outbreak management to predictive environmental risk control with measurable results. The outcome adds to Novem's growing proof in seniors living and multi-family residential real estate, where risk reduction must be measured in both financial and human terms. It also supports the company's broader message that building data should help CFOs and asset owners reduce risk-related costs, protect cash flow and net operating income (NOI), and make more confident decisions, not remain fragmented until failure forces action. > "A 65% reduction in outbreak weeks changes more than a health metric. It lowers wage premiums, reduces PPE spend, and gives boards a more defensible picture of how risk is being managed. That is the kind of result that strengthens both operations and financial confidence."David Crawford, CFO and Head of Capital Planning, Novem > "Most operators still manage outbreak risk after the damage has already started. What this result shows is that predictive environmental monitoring can help leadership act sooner, reduce avoidable cost, and protect continuity in a setting where residents and staff feel the consequences of failure immediately."Clint Undseth, CEO, Novem \### ### Notes to editors All customer outcome figures in this release including the 65% outbreak week reduction, 65% wage premium reduction, 34% PPE reduction, and 0 outbreak weeks in the final year are Novem proprietary customer outcome data. External statistics are sourced as follows: \[1\] Respiratory infection incidence range (1.1% to 85.2%) Childs et al., "The burden of respiratory infections among older adults in long-term care: a systematic review," BMC Geriatrics 19:210 (2019). 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