Researchers ID 7 ways senior care providers can recruit and retain older workers to ease shortages
By
Joe Bush
Dec 19, 2022
Attracting more older people to fill frontline senior care jobs is a potentially powerful way to alleviate labor shortages, say researchers writing Friday in the Harvard Business Review on Friday.
Creative job advancements, better communication boost retention, providers told
By
Joe Bush
Sep 29, 2022
Lattices and ladders are two of the key tools for attracting and keeping employees to ease the burdens of staffing shortages in the long-term care sector.
States get needed nurse aide waiver relief but workers’ fates uncertain
By
Kimberly Marselas
Oct 07, 2022
Skilled nursing providers in at least 15 states averted the loss of thousands of frontline workers Thursday, when the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services let expire a blanket national waiver allowing...
Foreign-born nurses bring more ‘human capital,’ compassion to work: study
By
Jessica R. Towhey
Aug 02, 2023
Foreign-born nurses provide more “human capital” to long-term care settings than nurses born in the US, according to new research that aimed to better quantify the value of immigrants working in healthcare.
As behavioral health demands grow, new federal center offers free SNF training
By
Kimberly Marselas
May 10, 2023
As federal regulators heighten pressure on skilled nursing facilities to accept and treat patients with mental health needs and substance abuse disorders, a new center is ramping up to equip providers...
12-facility strike raises stakes as workforce board gets to work on wages
By
Josh Henreckson
Mar 07, 2024
Around 1,000 direct care and support staff workers staged a coordinated, one-day strike at 12 unrelated Minnesota nursing homes Tuesday — demanding a $25 nursing home minimum wage, better benefits and...
New study reveals depths of agency nurse dependence
By
Josh Henreckson
Feb 16, 2024
Newly published research gives skilled nursing operators all the empirical evidence they need to be worried when gazing at the prospect of a federal staffing mandate being finalized soon.
Nurses group calls for accountability, protections against attacks on staff
By
Alicia Lasek
Aug 24, 2023
A group of leading nurse educators and policymakers are calling for more protections for nurses and staff who care for patients with psychiatric issues, including those in nursing facilities.
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...
Provider insurance rates finally ‘bending in positive direction’ but not all sunny: report
By
Kimberly Marselas
May 02, 2023
Long-term care providers could begin to see some relief this spring from insurance rates that escalated during the pandemic.