Senior living industry tells federal lawmakers of ‘unprecedented’ financial issues
By
Kimberly Bonvissuto
Mar 27, 2023
A recent House hearing on healthcare inflation drew no shortage of comments from groups including the senior living industry sharing experiences with escalating costs.
Development programs, immigration among potential solutions to workforce crisis, provider groups tell...
By
Kimberly Bonvissuto
Mar 21, 2023
Workforce development programs and immigration reform are among the potential solutions to staffing challenges that senior living advocates presented to lawmakers seeking options to address the crisis.
70 percent of assisted living providers still report significant or severe workforce shortage
By
Kimberly Bonvissuto
Mar 16, 2023
Seventy percent of assisted living providers responding to a newly released LeadingAge workforce poll said they still are experiencing a significant or severe workforce shortage.
Long-term care workforce shortages worst in all of healthcare, provider groups say as Senate committee...
By
Kimberly Bonvissuto
Feb 17, 2023
Healthcare workforce shortages were front and center at Thursday’s Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee hearing, and senior living industry advocates made their voices heard.
Solving ‘unprecedented workforce crisis’ is focus of new AHCA/NCAL campaign
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Kimberly Bonvissuto
Jan 12, 2023
An “unprecedented workforce crisis” is the backdrop for a national campaign launched by the American Health Care Association / National Center for Assisted Living on Wednesday to educate job-seekers...
Immigration policy proposals encouraging as staffing solution, senior living provider groups say
By
Kimberly Bonvissuto
Jan 11, 2023
As senior living providers continue to face severe workforce shortages, advocacy groups are encouraged by steps taken by the Biden administration to address immigration.
COVID, workforce, financial issues confront senior living providers as 2023 starts, leaders say
By
Lois A. Bowers
Jan 03, 2023
Addressing the burnout plaguing existing employees while working to entice others to join the industry will be a focus of providers in 2023.
Senior living industry pitches immigration reform as partial solution to workforce crisis
By
Kimberly Bonvissuto
Dec 02, 2022
With the workforce crisis top of mind for most senior living and other long-term care providers, trade associations representing providers are making a last-minute push to float immigration reform to the...
Midterm elections mean change, but also opportunities, for senior living industry: experts
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Kimberly Bonvissuto
Nov 03, 2022
The midterm elections will have major implications for the Biden agenda, potentially flipping control of the House and Senate. But with change comes new opportunities, according to senior living experts.
Senior living coalition calls on Congress to address workforce crisis
By
Kimberly Bonvissuto
Oct 20, 2022
A coalition of senior living advocacy groups is calling on congressional leaders to build and train the workforce needed now — and into the future — to care for the nation’s rapidly growing aging...