Workforce innovations help senior living operators manage increasing demand
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Kimberly Bonvissuto
Mar 13, 2024
A new report spotlighting workforce challenges in long-term care facilities found that 85% of assisted living operators said they employees are burned out or stressed, leading 96% to identify employee...
Combatting senior care burnout through resiliency, employee engagement
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Kimberly Bonvissuto
Dec 08, 2023
The palliative care team at Elizabeth Seton Children’s Center works daily with residents who are approaching the end of life. Similar to direct care workers in aging services, that care can be physically...
$30 million loan repayment program aims to recruit, retain senior living workers in Hawaii
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Kimberly Bonvissuto
Sep 12, 2023
A student loan repayment program is being launched in Hawaii to address the growing shortages of healthcare professionals in senior living and other settings across the islands.
State regulations on training, staffing levels affect end-of-life care quality: study
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Kimberly Bonvissuto
Jun 07, 2023
More specific direct care worker training requirements in assisted living communities may help decrease the number of end-of-life care transitions, and more explicit staffing regulations may increase those...
Advocacy groups release blueprint to improve HCBS, aging services workforce
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Kimberly Bonvissuto
Apr 05, 2023
Strategies on how to improve Ohio’s overall system of home- and community-based services, including assisted living, and the aging services workforce are highlights of a blueprint released by a coalition...
Training, wage improvements necessary to increase supply of direct care workers, task force says
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Kimberly Bonvissuto
Dec 20, 2022
Competitive compensation, skills training and job improvements are among the recommendations a state task force made to lawmakers to increase the supply of direct care workers in assisted living communities...
Service coordinators improved affordable senior housing resident resilience during pandemic: surveys
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Kimberly Bonvissuto
Nov 21, 2022
Service coordinators in federally subsidized senior housing drew on their professional knowledge, connections and relationships to identify and address pandemic-related challenges for residents, according...
Senior living provider hit with disability discrimination suit after failed drug test, job-offer revocation
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Kimberly Bonvissuto
Sep 27, 2022
An age-restricted senior living community is facing a disability discrimination lawsuit after allegedly revoking a job offer to a veteran over a failed drug test.
‘Deeply flawed’ bonus program excludes most assisted living workers, provider group says
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Kimberly Bonvissuto
Sep 13, 2022
New York’s healthcare worker bonus program is “deeply flawed, unfair and discriminatory” according to one senior living industry advocate.
Labor, enforcement trends creating operational, financial challenges for senior living
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Kimberly Bonvissuto
Jul 22, 2022
Labor, behavioral health and the regulatory agenda are among the key 2022 trends that continue causing operational and financial challenges for senior living and other long-term care providers.