In absence of Supreme Court ruling, work toward compliance with OSHA rule, experts advise
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Kathleen Steele Gaivin
Jan 11, 2022
With the Occupational Safety and Health Administration withdrawing part of its COVID-19 healthcare emergency temporary standard, the agency’s vaccination-and-testing mandate for employers with 100 or...
IntegraCare mentorship program benefits employees, residents across 3 states
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Kathleen Steele Gaivin
Jan 10, 2022
IntegraCare’s Motivational Advancement Program, available to employees at all 15 of the company’s properties in Pennsylvania, Maryland and Virginia, aims to improve employees’ lives and, subsequently,...
President Biden asks businesses to voluntarily proceed with vaccinate-or-test requirements
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Kathleen Steele Gaivin
Dec 03, 2021
President Joe Biden detailed plans Thursday for combating COVID-19 this winter, particularly in light of the emerging omicron variant.
State lawmakers take action on COVID-19-related liability, vaccination legislation
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Kathleen Steele Gaivin
Dec 02, 2021
More COVID-19-related legislation is working its way through state legislat
Lifespace Communities aims to get, keep employees with double-digit percentage wage increases
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Kathleen Steele Gaivin
Dec 02, 2021
With an eye toward recruitment and retention, and maybe even luring some previous employees back, Dallas and West Des Moines, IA-based Lifespace Communities is investing $17 million into wage increases,...
Michigan healthcare industry asks state for $650M to address staffing shortages
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Kathleen Steele Gaivin
Nov 10, 2021
Michigan’s Healthcare Workforce Sustainability Alliance is asking the Michigan legislature for $650 million to help offset staffing shortages. The funds would be directed toward rewarding current...
Biden administration pledges $100M to boost recruitment, retention of healthcare workers
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Kathleen Steele Gaivin
Oct 18, 2021
The Department of Health and Human Services will aid state-run programs that support, recruit and retain healthcare workers in underserved communities by making $100 million in American Rescue Plan funding...
Few COVID-displaced direct care workers return: study
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Kathleen Steele Gaivin
Oct 14, 2021
Approximlately 4% of direct care workers were displaced during the second quarter of 2020. A year later, few had returned to direct care, according to a new study by PHI and the Health Workforce Research...
Staff shortages lead to limits, holds on admissions: survey
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Kathleen Steele Gaivin
Oct 06, 2021
Nearly three-quarters of the respondents to a Pennsylvania Health Care Association member survey last month said they’ve had to limit or put on hold admissions within the past six months.