Lesson from site of first US COVID outbreak: Staffing levels, worker support vital
By
Danielle Brown
Apr 14, 2021
Being aware of state staffing regulations and providing support to employees were crucial lessons for leaders at the Washington state nursing home that became the first U.S. site of a COVID-19 outbreak.
This state’s long-term care providers need 23,000 workers … and counting
By
Danielle Brown
Oct 12, 2021
Nearly 70% of nursing homes here are restricting admissions because of a lack of staffing.
Three stars will be the new one star
By
Betsy Rust
Dec 07, 2016
Nursing home operators call it low occupancy. Medicare insiders call it a declining census. Economists call it excess capacity.
Ratings may factor in satisfaction results
By
James M. Berklan
Aug 01, 2009
Federal regulators are meeting with nursing home operators and other key stakeholders to discuss ways that resident and family satisfaction surveys might be factored into the new Five-Star rating system.
HCR ManorCare among providers trying to ‘MacGyver’ their way around COVID-19
By
Liza Berger
Mar 31, 2020
Necessity is the mother of invention, so the expression goes. Some nursing homes are taking this idea to heart, implementing unusual and creative steps to compensate for facility and material shortages...
Rural seniors with dementia have longer nursing home stays, study finds
By
Alicia Lasek
Oct 23, 2020
Rural Medicare recipients with Alzheimer’s and related dementias have longer nursing home stays and shorter survival time following diagnosis than their urban peers, investigators say.
This ‘less costly’ staffing fix can’t get past the border
By
Kimberly Marselas
Apr 20, 2022
A larger pool of immigrants in the U.S. could both improve nursing homes’ ability to hire for frontline positions and reduce dependency on institutional care in the long-term, speakers at a healthcare...
Avalere, ANA release staffing white paper
Nov 24, 2015
The American Nurses Association and Avalere Health LLC have released a white paper focused on staffing.
$322 million ‘rescue’ package for long-term care staffing introduced in Minnesota
By
Kathleen Steele Gaivin
Feb 22, 2022
Minnesota state Republicans on Thursday introduced a $322 million package meant to address the staffing challenges facing long-term care, group homes, and home health and other direct care providers.
Editors’ Blog: The dilemma of the short-stay resident
Aug 12, 2008
The Wall Street Journal’s story about long-term care resident evictions begs an important question: Nursing homes are benefiting from serving short-stay residents–but at whose expense?