Proposals would exacerbate workforce shortages, provider groups say
By
Kimberly Bonvissuto
Sep 20, 2024
Proposed changes to an existing law overseeing protections for older adults would delay hiring practices, create backlogs and become another unfunded mandate for Pennsylvania’s senior living and care...
HHS announces $19 million to build long-term care, acute care nurse workforce
By
Lois A. Bowers
Sep 18, 2024
The federal government on Tuesday announced $19 million in funding to five schools to help educate nurses to work in long-term care and acute healthcare settings.
Growing demand for direct care workers underscores pressing need to invest in job quality: PHI
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Kimberly Bonvissuto
Sep 04, 2024
The direct care workforce serving residents in assisted living communities and other residential care settings has fluctuated in the past several years, struggling not only to return to pre-pandemic levels...
Coalition campaign aims to encourage workers to consider jobs in assisted living
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Kimberly Bonvissuto
Aug 28, 2024
A coalition of assisted living communities and associations, government agencies, policymakers and nonprofit organizations is launching a campaign with a dedicated job board and outreach effort to encourage...
Improving employee onboarding key to engaging, motivating, retaining caregivers
By
Kimberly Bonvissuto
Aug 26, 2024
Employee retention begins with onboarding and training, but onboarding standards for the health services industry — including senior living — don’t look great, according to industry experts.
Aspire Health Group, Rasmussen University agreement aims to address worker retention, caregiver shortage
By
Kathleen Steele Gaivin
Aug 06, 2024
Skilled nursing provider Aspire Health Group of Florida is the most recent healthcare organization to partner with Rasmussen University to help train future nurses and other caregivers to boost the long-term...
Key strategies for a happier senior care team
By
Richard Birke
Aug 01, 2024
Managing a diverse workforce in the challenging environment of long-term care requires a high degree of leadership skill. Residents’ and patients’ lives, and the quality of their lives, depend...
Citizenship assistance program helps senior living operator stand out from the competition
By
Kimberly Bonvissuto
Jul 30, 2024
A resident-inspired program that helps senior living staff members achieve US citizenship became so much more for one organization, which shared its success in the hopes of inspiring other communities...
Building a ‘destination workplace’ in long-term care requires diverse investments, active listening...
By
Josh Henreckson
Jun 28, 2024
Faced with today’s complex array of financial, staffing and regulatory challenges, senior living and other long-term care providers across the care continuum must rely on an equally broad range of solutions,...
Immigration policy could be boon for long-term care providers
By
Kathleen Steele Gaivin
Jun 21, 2024
A new federal policy on immigration could prove beneficial to long-term care providers,who have increasingly pointed to immigration reform as a vital step on the path toward long-awaited stability in the...
