Nursing home employment remained down 13.2% some 15 months into the pandemic, researchers reported in Health Affairs in January.
Between February and April 2020, one month before and after COVID-19’s first wave began in the U.S., nursing home employment dipped just 3%. Skilled nursing’s double-digit drop followed in the months after, and rates continued to sag while most other healthcare sectors rebounded.
Though healthcare workers left nursing homes, they didn’t necessarily leave the workforce. Researchers found no significant unemployment changes for RNs, LPNs, or aides.
From the January/February 2022 Issue of McKnight's Long-Term Care News
