Price-gouging, poaching and thin patience: LTC providers seek fixes for anti-competitive staffing agencies
By
Kimberly Marselas
James M. Berklan
Oct 15, 2021
As the bidding war over frontline workers escalates, provider organizations across the country are seeking government intervention to force temporary staffing agencies to play by similar rules as nursing...
Creating ‘fixers’ for a new generation of nursing home leadership
By
Kimberly Marselas
Aug 07, 2023
Indiana’s largest skilled nursing operator is developing a new program to advance leaders across the organization’s footprint, focusing on soft skills and people management techniques that are necessary...
Opponents of the federal government’s COVID-19 vaccine mandate for healthcare workers are pursuing two fresh pathways to defeat it. Both challenges cite the pandemic’s current, less critical stage...
Why long-term care advocates are holding their breath over likely Congress power shift
By
Joe Bush
Oct 20, 2022
The effort to alter long-term care workforce policies is waiting, along with the rest of the country, on pins and needles for Nov. 8 election results.
COVID-19 criminal charges against nursing home leaders ‘first of many,’ legal expert says
By
Danielle Brown
Sep 28, 2020
Coronavirus-based criminal charges against two leaders of a Massachusetts veterans nursing home where 76 patients died will likely be the first of many cases across the country regarding nursing home care...
Not so fast: 10 states suing CMS over healthcare worker vax mandate
By
James M. Berklan
Nov 12, 2021
Despite many legal analysts’ view that the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services’ healthcare worker vaccination mandate will clear legal muster, a group of 10 states have filed suit to stop it.
Providers’ best chances in federal budget talks lie with funding for infection prevention, staffing:...
By
James M. Berklan
Oct 13, 2021
OXON HILL, MD — Long-term care interests are clearly down the priority line in federal budget negotiators, one of the industry’s top lobbyists noted Tuesday, but several key topics also have earned...
‘Days filled with fear and sadness’: Senate witnesses stress need for more staffing, federal support...
By
Danielle Brown
Mar 18, 2021
Tales of extremely short-staffed long-term care facilities, and calls for federal funding and support for the direct care workforce led the way during a Wednesday Senate hearing aimed at uncovering what...
Flurry of immigration legislation would reduce hiring barriers
By
Danielle Brown
Jun 14, 2022
Immigrants looking to work in the long-term care industry would see some barriers lowered, including costs and licensing requirements, under a trio of recently introduced House bills.
BREAKING: Genesis, biggest U.S. nursing home chain, mandates staff COVID-19 vaccinations
By
James M. Berklan
Aug 03, 2021
Genesis HealthCare, the nation’s largest nursing home chain, has declared a “universal” COVID-19 vaccine policy for all employees, care partners and onsite vendors, who have three weeks to come into...