A New Digital Process for Battling Staffing Pitfalls and Helping Schedulers
Uber-like system focuses on providing cost-effective and fully credentialed nurses
Visa deadline extension saves border nursing homes from staffing shortages
By
Haymarket Media
Jul 21, 2004
Nursing homes in states bordering Mexico and Canada, worried about the looming July 26 deadline for their workers to obtain a visa certificate from the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, can relax....
Everything is driven by staffing quality, surveys and stars
Jan 24, 2023
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Embracing innovation in senior care and living to improve the resident experience
Expanding capabilities can help improve the resident experience and attract new interest
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...
McKnight’s Long-Term Care News Newsmakers Podcast with Amy Stewart
Oct 19, 2021
In this podcast, McKnight’s Danielle Brown interviews Amy Stewart of AAPACN about the pending federal vaccine mandate, staffing shortages and infection control strategies providers can take now to avoid...
Nursing home staffing shortages will lead to fines under ‘historic’ new law
By
James M. Berklan
Kimberly Marselas
Jun 07, 2019
Nursing home workers are cheering passage of a bill that will penalize providers who under-staff their facilities, and in what might be a surprise to some, operators are also taking a supporting position...
Also in the News for Tuesday, July 9
Jul 08, 2019
Millions budgeted for nursing home wage support a no-go without governor’s blessing … Lawsuit blames ‘gross’ staffing shortage for fall-related death … Nursing home residents kept inside...
Pandemic resulted in nurses shifting from hospitals to other settings, study finds
By
Kristen Fischer
Feb 22, 2024
A shortage of registered nurses in the first two years of the pandemic was probably temporary, according to a new report. That’s because the workforce rebounded in 2022 and 2023, the authors said. Even...
Also in the News for Tuesday, Oct. 19
Oct 19, 2021
How providers can improve telemedicine use in nursing homes … National Guard called in to help Minnesota providers with staffing shortages … Proposals on Medicaid reimbursement, cost-of-living adjustments...