Healthcare follows the people—and during the pandemic people moved. They moved out of urban centers and spread into new markets across the country. Now, healthcare systems are focused on placing facilities near growing communities, according to Sean Miller VP of development at Anchor Health Properties. Miller is speaking at GlobeSt.com Healthcare conference currently underway about how the delivery of care has shifted into growth markets.

"Over the past year we have seen a big push towards locating facilities in growing communities and in retail developments," Miller tells GlobeSt.com. "Many of the systems across the country that we have partnered with have been focused on are looking into the future and projecting growth patterns and strategic locations in major markets to identify key locations that providers want to create a larger market presence in the future."

The short list of states that are seeing an influx of new residents includes Oregon, Washington, Arizona, Nevada, Colorado, Idaho, Florida, Georgia, North and South Carolina, Texas and Oklahoma. "Many markets that we serve across the country are growing rapidly due to people relocating from states with a higher cost of living creating many opportunities for suburbs to show rapid growth trends," adds Miller about these state.