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...
Prioritizing staff members’ well-being shown to alleviate shortages: study
By
Anjali Byju
Jul 13, 2023
Researchers have found that nursing homes with leaders demonstrably committed to worker safety, health and well-being had staff turnover rates 10% lower than facilities with leaders who did not champion...
Compassion in leadership
By
Julie Thorson
Apr 26, 2023
Everyone has something. Do you know what that “something” is for your team members? Recently, I was reminded that our teams, many times, are fighting a battle we may know nothing about. They...
Long-term care’s overlooked staffing crisis
By
John O'Connor
Dec 05, 2022
There’s a staffing challenge in long-term care that gets far too little attention: the need for effective executives.
Finding the new senior care leaders
By
Christy Kramer
Charles de Vilmorin
Nov 23, 2022
The current staffing crisis is the most challenging the senior care industry has ever experienced. It is leading to economic pressure on providers, burnout in the existing workforce and likely poor health...
What’s your 2023 leadership training plan?
By
Cara Silletto
Nov 07, 2022
As we begin to plan for the 2023 calendar year, I’m talking with more executives about their vision for professional development.
Leading through crisis
By
Kimberly Townsend
Aug 19, 2022
For leaders in the long-term care industry, the past few years have felt like one crisis after another. In 2020 we had a sudden and urgent need to protect staff and residents from COVID-19. Shortly after,...
‘God chose me for a reason’ — an LTC leader’s courage in facing cancer, global pandemic
By
Jennifer Jasper
Jul 27, 2022
I have been a licensed nursing home administrator since 2004, now in two states. I moved to the great state of North Carolina in 2019 and began practicing at a Principle LTC facility, Piney Grove Nursing...
Practical steps to prepare our ‘careforce’ for the now normal
By
Fred Bonaccorso
Jul 12, 2022
Services and support for our frailest, oldest adults need to evolve and improve. We need your leadership – now and into the future – to anticipate and embrace change, to help with the continued healing...
Tough conversations on gender equity, from dinner tables to boardrooms
By
Steven Littlehale
Apr 29, 2022
To solve our staffing shortage, we must address the issue of gender parity in leadership. And to do that, we must embrace our fear, speak up, and act; we must start the tough conversations.