Meet Phil Fogg Jr., CEO and President of Marquis Companies, based in Milwaukie, Oregon. As a fourth-generation senior living operator, Fogg started in the business when he was just 12 years old, working for his family’s company. At 25, he branched out to start his own company, and today runs a portfolio of 26 communities across Oregon, California and Nevada. Fogg’s brother, Steve (pictured in slideshow below), is CFO for Marquis, which has been an early adopter of technology solutions for senior housing and care, and also the company’s other business channels including pharmacy, rehab and home care.
Spotlight on Technology
How would you describe your approach to technology? There has been a lot of change since your start in the industry.
We’ve tried to be an early adopter, which has been a stress on our organization, but yet I’m glad we’ve been early adopters.
I think the first thing we did that was really right on, and I have to give my Ops person the credit, was we deployed the PointClickCare EMR solution. We went fully electronic, fully paperless in our facilities. That was not only the right move, but it opened the door to be able to interface and integrate with a number of other solutions.
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