How bad are the huge pay gaps between agency and full-time staff nurses? This bad
By
Joe Bush
Dec 19, 2022
A state-by-state comparison of pay-rate disparities between agency nurses and their full-time counterparts is feeding the fury that disgruntled long-term care operators and other providers have felt during...
US News adds nursing home ownership tenure, weekend staffing, infection data to its ratings
By
Joe Bush
Nov 15, 2022
US News & World Report’s well-known nursing home ratings kicked up the heat on operators this year, adding information on ownership tenure, weekend staffing levels and infections.
Life Plan providers banking on less-regulated AL to provide SNF-like care: Fitch
By
Joe Bush
Oct 26, 2022
Labor pressures continue to force creative operational decisions in Life Plan Communities, even as they enjoy a better overall employment rebound than stand-alone skilled nursing facilities.
Potential staff mandate costs rocket upward when latest wages factored in
By
Joe Bush
Dec 16, 2022
The projected costs of meeting a possible nursing home staffing mandate have skyrocketed by $1.3 billion over the last five months, a report issued Thursday by accounting firm CliftonLarsonAllen on behalf...
Inflation replaces staffing as top concern for many operators: survey
By
Joe Bush
Aug 26, 2022
Staff recruitment and turnover still rank high among the stiffest headwinds, but increased operating expenses now top the list of concerns for many skilled nursing and seniors housing operators, according...
Bill would bring equal pay and protections for agency nurses
By
Joe Bush
Nov 29, 2022
The first bill of its kind in the US would mandate that employers pay temporary workers, on average, as much as regular, direct-hire employees who do the same or similar work. The temp workers, who include...
Also in the News for Thursday, Nov. 17, 2022
By
Joe Bush
Nov 17, 2022
Wisconsin will raise direct care worker wages with Medicaid increase in 2023 … Justice Department launches disability rights investigation into Missouri’s use of SNFs … Hospitals ask Congress...
Tried-and-true apprenticeship program offers window into potential staffing solution
By
Joe Bush
Dec 02, 2022
A healthcare apprenticeship program in rural Colorado is showing a broader embrace of apprenticeship programs might help address the nation’s healthcare worker shortage.
Nursing home quality coalition makes first recommendations
By
Joe Bush
Dec 05, 2022
A distinguished group of nursing home experts issued their first recommendations Friday after a landmark report called for sweeping change in spring of 2022.
In-house hospice unit bucks long-standing SNF underuse
By
Joe Bush
Oct 27, 2022
While many nursing home patients who would qualify for hospice care never get it, a Pennsylvania provider is shoring up its efforts around end-of-life care with a new 16-bed hospice unit.