Building a coveted ‘destination workplace’ requires diverse investments, active listening to staff:...
By
Josh Henreckson
Jun 27, 2024
Faced with today’s complex array of financial, staffing and regulatory challenges, senior care operators need to rely on a broad range of solutions, a panel of experts said
In McKnight’s 2023 Mood of the Market, nursing home managers warn to pay up, be flexible to stem...
By
Kimberly Marselas
Oct 10, 2023
The staffing crisis in long-term care is showing signs of easing, but many building leaders still want higher pay and more flexibility in exchange for the extra work they’re putting in, according to...
CMP grant receives phenomenal nursing retention results, even during pandemic!
By
Peg Tobin
Jul 09, 2021
Tobin and Associates, Inc. received a Civil Monetary Penalty Grant to implement a Nurse Leadership Training Program in Ohio from January 1, 2018, to December 31, 2020. The purpose of this grant was to...
Strategies for success: Employee engagement through scheduling called a key for retention
By
Danielle Brown
Apr 21, 2021
Allowing employees to have a say in their own work schedules can go a long way toward alleviating long-term care’s long-standing workforce challenges, according to one expert.
The key to keeping employees around? Kindness
By
Jun 27, 2017
We talk a lot about employee retention in this industry — and I mean a LOT. With the current employment climate of the sector, it would be unwise not to. Here’s a key to it.
A jolt to long-term care best practices, amid the Ivy
By
James M. Berklan
Apr 23, 2014
This is going to sound terribly wrong on the face of it. There’s no way around it. It appears that the nation’s largest association of nursing home operators has just bought itself a whole...
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...
Experienced direct-care nurses respond positively to retention initiatives, study finds
Sep 02, 2009
A number of different trial programs conducted around the country have proven successful at retaining experienced direct-care nurses, according to a new study from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.