In an industry struggling to recruit and maintain employees, Trilogy Health Services is investing $8 million to attract workers to the Louisville, KY-based senior living and care organization.
Trilogy has more than 10,000 employees in more than 100 locations across Indiana, Kentucky, Michigan and Ohio.
Trilogy CEO Leigh Ann Barney told the McKnight’s Business Daily that the $8 million is “all direct wage investment” to maintain competitiveness in the market. The monies are being used solely in increasing wages across Trilogy’s operations, she said.
“We have a wage scale based on the regions of the country that we operate in. We looked at our scale, the minimum on the scale, and raised those for most of our categories,” said Barney, a 2021 McKnight’s Women of Distinction Hall of Honor inductee. “Also, we do what’s called quarterly wage investment, so our employees get a raise every quarter, and we doubled the quarter that started July 1.”
The investment was two-fold, the CEO said. Anyone hired would be brought in under the new minimum wage scale, and the quarterly raise was increased from 0.75% to 1.5%.
“We have continued in the past two to three years to look at our wage scale for our various categories and made some significant increases about a year ago in our caregiver workforce wages. This time we looked at dining, nursing and other ancillary departments like housing maintenance … just to get more competitive,” Barney said. “We felt it was time for us to look at our scale and make adjustments to raise it to market.”
She said the company believes that the investment will help draw in and keep workers.
“We’ve been a net positive for hiring for the last three months, so we do believe that we’re retaining more people,” Barney said.
