Jan. 28 webinar gives strategies for workforce challenges
Jan 20, 2016
Workforce shortages, high turnover rates, wage pressures and Payroll-Based Journal reporting mandates will be the focus of a special McKnight’s webinar on Jan. 28.
Nov. 8 webcast focuses on “The Key to Quality in 2013: Staffing”
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McKnight's Staff
Nov 08, 2012
The latest in a long line of successful McKnight’s webcasts will give listeners “The Key to Quality in 2013: Staffing” on Nov. 8. Attendees of the no-cost event will learn how heavily...
Staffing strategies that lead to quality care featured in June 11 webcast
May 21, 2014
Long-term care providers can learn about balanced approaches to staffing that both answer increasing acuity needs and stay within budget at a McKnight’s webinar June 11. “Staffing strategies...
Let the government teach you a lesson about millennials
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Oct 04, 2016
The stars in the workforce-strategy universe must have aligned on Thursday, because a new government report about millennials dropped around the same time that we kicked off a webcast on hiring and retaining...
CMS going public with facility turnover, weekend staffing data
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Kimberly Marselas
Jan 10, 2022
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services late Friday announced that it will begin posting nursing home staff turnover rates and weekend staffing levels on the consumer-facing Medicare Care Compare...
The keys to reducing turnover in long-term care
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Eleanor Feldman Barbera, Ph.D.
Feb 07, 2014
The turnover rate in long-term care is a very significant problem, so I dug into the research about it. Some of the findings were shocking. Others were simply very disappointing. Here’s what I found,...
Keys to employee engagement at Feb. 16 webinar
Feb 06, 2017
Employees seem to be in the driver’s seat more than ever thanks to high turnover and worker shortages in long-term care. That’s why on Feb. 16 providers are being presented with a vital McKnight’s...
MedPAC member: Give Congress more on nursing home staffing mandate implications
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Kimberly Marselas
Jan 12, 2024
The likely costs of complying with a federal staffing mandate will affect nursing home margins so “massively” that a Congressional advisory board should offer alternative payment guidance for the sector,...
Facilities missing staffing requirements threatened with possible state admissions freeze
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Josh Henreckson
Jan 24, 2024
Lawmakers will have nursing home policy in their sights during the upcoming Connecticut legislative session, with one proposed provision threatening a two-week admissions freeze for facilities that fail...
Nursing shortages, and why ‘nobody wants to work anymore’
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Jean Wendland Porter
May 02, 2023
Everyone has been feeling the nursing shortage, and now the Biden administration has tightened staffing rules, and that order will become a harbinger of more skilled nursing facility crises and closings....