Workforce training program being evaluated by LeadingAge LTSS Center
By
Kathleen Steele Gaivin
Aug 08, 2023
The LeadingAge LTSS Center @UMass Boston has been selected to evaluate the three-year Gateway-In Project, a workforce training initiative designed by LeadingAge California.
Bill would expand provider National Practitioner Data Bank access to long-term care providers
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Kathleen Steele Gaivin
Jul 24, 2023
Legislation re-introduced last week by Sens. Marco Rubio (R-FL) and Jacky Rosen (D-NV) would expand access to the National Practitioner Data Bank to include long-term care providers such as nursing homes...
Decades-old CNA training lockout would change under re-introduced bill
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Kathleen Steele Gaivin
May 16, 2023
A two-year lockout on certified nursing assistant training programs in skilled nursing facilities with deficiencies would be lifted under certain conditions if the bipartisan Ensuring Seniors’ Access...
USCIS reaches limit for additional returning worker H-2B visas
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Kathleen Steele Gaivin
Apr 04, 2023
US Citizenship and Immigration Services has received enough petitions to reach the congressionally mandated cap for the additional 16,500 H-2B visas made available for returning workers for the early second...
Providers continue to face workforce challenges as Careers in Aging Week arrives
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Kathleen Steele Gaivin
Mar 27, 2023
The long-term care industry is celebrating frontline workers this week during Careers in Aging Week as they continue to face workforce shortages.
Workforce shortage remains issue for most nursing home, assisted living employers: LeadingAge poll
By
Kathleen Steele Gaivin
Mar 16, 2023
Almost all (92%) of nursing home provider members of LeadingAge that completed the association’s February / March 2023 Workforce Snap Poll reported a significant or severe workforce shortage, and 70%...
Long-term care industry brings workforce shortage issue to Senate committee
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Kathleen Steele Gaivin
Feb 17, 2023
“A shortage of healthcare personnel was a problem before the pandemic, and now it has gotten worse,” Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee Chairman Bernie Sanders (I-VT) said Thursday...
ARPA funds still weeks away for assisted living, personal care providers
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Kathleen Steele Gaivin
Feb 14, 2023
Assisted living residences and personal care homes will have to wait a little longer for American Rescue Plan Act payments to be distributed under Pennsylvania’s Act 54 of 2022. The payments have been...
Workforce issues a theme of State of the Union address and industry reaction to it
By
Kathleen Steele Gaivin
Feb 09, 2023
Several workforce issues were part of President Biden’s State of the Union address on Tuesday — as well as long-term care industry reaction to the speech. The talk comes at a time when long-term care...
Business briefs, Jan. 27
By
Kathleen Steele Gaivin
Jan 27, 2023
Attorney general asks Good Samaritan, Ebenezer parent organizations to delay merger … Senior living tech investment returns to ‘normal priorities’: Ziegler … Operation Nightingale: HHS-OIG charges...