Immigration reform won’t solve long-term care’s fundamental staffing challenge
By
John O'Connor
Apr 05, 2013
Long-term care operators are understandably giddy about the sudden prospect of immigration reform. But they might want to curb their enthusiasm.
Staffing for the ‘new’ LTC/post-acute care the focus of Aug. 19 webcast
By
James M. Berklan
Aug 05, 2014
Attendees at a free McKnight’s webcast Aug. 19 will hear how frontline execs have found success battling new caregiving challenges in long-term and post-acute care. The event will feature, among...
Wait-and-see staffing rule exemptions meant to ‘safeguard’ residents: CMS
By
Kimberly Marselas
Apr 25, 2024
Skilled nursing providers will not have to go through a stand-alone application process to be exempted from provisions of a new federal staffing mandate, an official with the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid...
It’s time for care solutions, not excuses
By
Michael Wasserman
Jan 09, 2023
In February 2019, I wrote about the importance of fully engaging geriatricians and certified medical directors in the operations of nursing homes and chains. A month later, I shared my concern about a...
Nursing homes adopting senior living sales tactics to build census. Will it work?
By
Kimberly Marselas
Oct 25, 2022
As staffing and occupancy pressures continue to bring some providers to the brink of closure, more appear to be borrowing a marketing tactic from their senior living peers.
Losing $100K a month, a 50-year-old nursing home turns to bake sales, public pleas to cover costs
By
Josh Henreckson
Dec 06, 2023
A Rhode Island nursing home is creatively sounding the alarm on Medicaid reimbursement funding gaps that have forced it to operate with six-figure monthly losses.
Workforce strategies that work in tumultuous times: May 9
Apr 20, 2017
A special McKnight’s webinar will offer providers numerous workforce strategies for surviving difficult times. The event will take place at 1 p.m. Eastern on May 9.
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.
Post-pandemic population may require higher staffing levels
By
Eleanor Feldman Barbera, Ph.D.
May 25, 2021
Before the pandemic, residents were admitted for rehabilitation following elective surgery or a health crisis. The rehab residents either returned home or joined the group of long-term residents who had...
Short-handed or short-sighted?
By
Jean Wendland Porter
Feb 15, 2017
When we communicate that we are having staffing issues, whether or not that communication is correct, we are telling the residents and their families that we can’t do our jobs.