Providers must change treatment of healthcare workers to survive COVID-19 storm, avert ‘implosion’
By
Danielle Brown
Feb 01, 2022
The likelihood that long-term care and other providers survive severe staffing shortages and COVID-19 crisis will depend on their ability to change how healthcare workers are treated so they can continue...
Providers renew pressure for federal investigation into price-gouging
By
Danielle Brown
Jan 31, 2022
After three months with no public response from the federal government on the issue of price-gouging, the American Health Care Association is again calling on officials to investigate tactics being used...
Begin what? I begin.
By
Gary Tetz
Jan 27, 2022
As I sit here at 2 a.m. eating a big bowl of unnecessary cereal, driven from bed by work-related stress and the need to speedily write a column for a distinguished publication named McKnight’s, it doesn’t...
Empty bed syndrome: The impact of staffing shortages
Jan 27, 2022
[Partner content] In this first episode of A Spoonful of Sugar, experts explore staffing’s impact on skilled nursing operations. When admissions from hospitals and the community plummeted during...
Pressures to mount on long-term care; Seizing solutions will matter
By
Pete Reilly
Jan 27, 2022
The senior care industry in the U.S. was under pressure before the pandemic. As 2022 and the third year of COVID’s influence approaches, it’s not easing up. A host of trends say the industry’s battering...
Lawmakers urge investigation of staffing agencies, price gouging claims
By
Danielle Brown
Jan 27, 2022
A federal investigation into alleged price gouging tactics being used by temporary staffing agencies against strained providers could be coming under the Biden administration.
‘Tone deaf’: Posting of more staffing and turnover data starts
By
Danielle Brown
Jan 27, 2022
Nursing home staff turnover rates and weekend staffing levels can now be viewed publicly on the Care Compare website, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services announced Wednesday.
Capping staffing agency pay rates isn’t the answer
By
Eleanor Alvarez
Jan 26, 2022
The staffing crisis in skilled nursing and assisted living centers continues to be a dire situation. As healthcare workers leave the field in record numbers, these centers have found relief by leaning...
Feds must deliver immediate $5 wage increase, relief payments for LTC workers, top provider group warns
By
Danielle Brown
Jan 25, 2022
The nation’s second largest nursing home association is demanding the Biden administration “immediate relief” for aging services providers that would include a $5 per hour wage increase and a one-time...
Also in the News for Wednesday, Jan. 26
By
Danielle Brown
Jan 25, 2022
Virginia considers minimum staffing mandates for nursing homes … Infected CNAs recount their ongoing work at short-staffed California nursing homes … Death of two residents during winter storm at nursing...