With all the problems long-term care is grappling with and focusing on, sometimes it is harder to see even bigger problems down the road. Right now, senior care facilities are grappling with staffing shortages...
Sharing direct care workers’ stories to support recruitment and retention
By
Robin Klar
May 22, 2023
Direct care workers caring for older adults and people with disabilities—defined by the Bureau of Labor Statistics as personal care aides, home health aides, and nursing assistants—make up the largest...
State’s access-to-care problems reflect the country’s nursing home problems
By
Joe Bush
Nov 22, 2022
Minnesotans’ access to long-term care is low. Most of the state’s nursing homes are turning away new admissions, according to a recent analysis by LeadingAge Minnesota’s Long-Term Care Imperative.
Yin and Yang. Tit for tat. Whatever you call it, nursing homes swing in the balance
By
Kimberly Marselas
Sep 06, 2022
I was reminded already during this short work week of just how tit-for-tat the nursing home sector can feel.
Staffing shortages forcing closures… why does the government turn a blind eye?
By
Neville M. Bilimoria
Aug 03, 2022
I would like to let you in on something: Survey enforcement against nursing homes across the country is on the rise. For the last few years, we have seen our post-acute care clients suffer a marked increase...
Let’s put a new spin on this tired ol’ nursing home staffing story
By
Kimberly Marselas
Mar 08, 2022
More money, more benefits, more flexibility. We need to know more of the nursing home staffing story.
COVID-19 deaths among nursing home staff near all-time high
By
Amy Novotney
Jan 13, 2022
Deaths from COVID-19 among nursing home workers neared an all time high last week, according to a report released Wednesday by the American Health Care Association and National Center for Assisted Living.
If you give the staff a livable wage…
By
Eleanor Feldman Barbera, Ph.D.
Dec 07, 2021
The longstanding story of long-term care staffing is that organizations can’t afford to increase the salaries of their workers due to Medicaid reimbursement deficits, rising expenses, tight margins and...
Program pairs nursing students with long-term care facilities to address staffing crisis
By
Alicia Lasek
Dec 01, 2021
Long-term care providers EmpRes Healthcare and Pennant Healthcare are partners in the state-funded externship program with the University of Washington School of Nursing.