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
New McKnight’s survey shows nursing homes’ most popular strategies for recruiting, keeping staff...
By
James M. Berklan
Dec 21, 2020
The latest McKnight’s Flash Survey has revealed a creative, determined workforce that nonetheless is starting to show cracks in resilience and job satisfaction 10 months into the biggest public health...
Terrible staffing competition will worsen: survey
By
Kimberly Marselas
Dec 16, 2021
When it comes to hiring, 55% of nursing homes and senior living facilities say they are now competing with staffing agencies for the same scarce supply of workers.
The solution to your staffing problems? Listen, learn, change
By
James M. Berklan
Jun 02, 2022
With more than 40 years in healthcare as a provider, and more significantly as a strategic market analyst, Irving Stackpole knows a thing or 300 about your business and the struggles you face.
94% of all nursing homes still facing staffing shortages, new survey shows
By
Danielle Brown
Jun 24, 2021
Challenges associated with hiring and retaining long-term care workers has gotten worse for about three-quarters of nursing homes this year, according to a new survey from the American Health Care Association/National...
Coordinator turnover threatens to cut into reimbursement: survey
By
Danielle Brown
Oct 08, 2021
Nurse assessment coordinators could start leaving long-term care facilities in waves and the resulting shortages would leave nursing homes struggling to capture full reimbursement, new research suggests.
Nursing home leaders unraveling after months of pandemic dangers, workloads, McKnight’s survey shows
By
James M. Berklan
Sep 07, 2021
Findings of the 2021 McKnight’s Mood of the Market survey shed unsettling light on fragile workplaces and severely tested workforces.
Workforce woes seen worsening
By
James M. Berklan
Jul 10, 2023
One in three skilled nursing operators in a recent industry survey said their workforce levels worsened over the previous year.
Another survey; another big, bad, sad number
By
Kimberly Marselas
Sep 27, 2022
I spent nearly a month this summer examining your reflections on working in nursing homes. I read through nurse leaders’ comments about dissatisfaction with pay, the decreasing meaning in their jobs...
Survey: Registered nurse workforce climbs between 2004 and 2008
Sep 28, 2010
A new survey from the Health Resources and Services Administration found that the number of licensed registered nurses in the U.S. increased by more than 5% between 2004 and 2008.