Steph Kolbo has been hired as chief growth officer of KARE, a digital labor marketplace for post-acute and senior care. Kolbo will join KARE after a decade at NRC Health, a healthcare customer intelligence...
Nursing home aide turns out to be a king
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It’s sometimes amazing to realize how little we know about the people with whom we work. Like the nurse down the hall who is an accomplished jazz pianist. Or that colleague who graduated from culinary...
Long-term care struggling to hold onto employees, expert explains
May 12, 2011
A year after healthcare reform became law, finding and keeping good industry employees continues to be a massive challenge, especially in long-term care, an expert in healthcare recruitment and retention...
Salaries increase for DONs, administrators
By
James M. Berklan
Sep 01, 2007
Good nursing leaders are a hot commodity – at least if the most recently compiled salary findings are to be believed.
Is pay pain reaching its peak after another year of impressive wage growth?
By
Kimberly Marselas
Nov 11, 2022
After a two-year stretch in which nursing homes’ largest employee group made salary gains approaching 20%, relief for cash-strapped providers may be in sight, even if far on the horizon.