Impossible expectations are undermining nursing home care
By
Brendan Williams
Feb 05, 2024
Maine has the nation’s oldest population, and yet almost 40% of its nursing homes have closed within the past few decades. As the Bangor Daily News has reported, that’s forced residents of some...
LeadingAge’s Sloan to Biden: Let’s talk so nursing homes don’t ‘shoulder entire burden’ on...
By
Kimberly Marselas
Aug 18, 2023
The leader of the nation’s second-largest nursing home advocacy group on Thursday asked the White House to convene a roundtable on improving job quality and expanding the worker pool in conjunction with...
President Biden’s staffing mandate would crush nonprofit nursing homes too
By
Brendan Williams
Jan 08, 2024
Although President Biden, once the darling of the credit card industry and now reborn as an economic populist, has never said anything positive about nursing homes, he has inferred that nonprofit...
Biden’s regulatory Death Star
By
Brendan Williams
Sep 11, 2023
Despite federal data showing that the COVID-19 pandemic contributed to massive job losses for nursing and residential care facilities – with the workforce 218,200 workers smaller last month...