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New Jersey is hoping to rebuild its workforce of nurses — including those in assisted living communities — due to high turnover, according to a new report. 

The US Department of Labor issued a final rule on worker classification standards Tuesday, setting in motion implications for a long-term care sector increasingly reliant on agency contract work to meet...

Achieving higher staffing levels does not resolve key discrepancies between nursing homes with higher and lower percentages of residents with Alzheimer’s, dementia and other cognitive impairments, a...

Immigrant care workers make up an increasingly large share of the nursing home workforce — largely because US-born certified nursing assistants have fled the sector, a new study in Health Affairs confirmed...

Like many of its skilled nursing neighbors in the Cornhusker State, Good Samaritan Society-Bloomfield is teetering between fulfilling its vital community role with special small-town flourishes and succumbing...

A surge of public and professional support arrived Friday as the comment period closed for a proposed federal rule that providers say could level the playing field with Medicare Advantage plans.

More than half — 55% — of skilled nursing leaders say they would need to hire more agency staff if a proposed federal staffing mandate is enacted. That’s just one finding from the McKnight’s 2024...

Skilled nursing providers have been working hard to reduce agency dependency in the wake of the pandemic and rising labor costs.

As debate continues to rage around the proposed federal nursing home staffing mandate, the rollouts of two state-level mandates illuminate the difficulties in enforcing these sweeping rules.

As the need to attract new staff into the flagging long-term care workforce intensifies, one provider’s successful career program is expanding its scope to help in-state competitors.