Federal interventions needed to support immigrants, a solution to workforce shortages: report
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Kathleen Steele Gaivin
Sep 28, 2023
Federal-level policy interventions, such as providing work authorizations and pathways to citizenship, are needed to better support immigrant direct care workers and address workforce shortages, according...
Business briefs, Oct. 21
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Kathleen Steele Gaivin
Oct 21, 2022
Long-term care coalition calls on Congress to address workforce shortage … Atrium considers sale of 10 ‘underutilized’ beds at Stanly Manor … Home-based SNF, hospital-at-home programs focus of...
Medical costs expected to increase 7 percent in 2024: survey
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Kathleen Steele Gaivin
Jul 05, 2023
PwC’s Health Research Institute is projecting a 7% year-over-year medical cost increase in 2024. The projected medical cost trend in 2022 and 2023 was 5.5% and 6%, respectively.
Feds aim to strengthen immigrant workforce, but do plans go far enough for long-term care?
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Kathleen Steele Gaivin
Jan 30, 2023
New federal plans to strengthen the country’s immigrant workforce might bring the long-term care sector one step closer to alleviating its workforce shortage. But some wonder whether the plans go far...
Legislation would remove barriers to healthcare licensing across state lines
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Kathleen Steele Gaivin
Mar 21, 2023
The States Handling Access to Reciprocity for Employment Act, introduced this month by a bipartisan group of congressmen, aims to help address workforce shortages in healthcare by removing licensure barriers...
CDC eases guidance for asymptomatic healthcare personnel exposed to COVID-19
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Kathleen Steele Gaivin
Sep 27, 2022
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on Friday introduced new guidance for managing asymptomatic healthcare personnel exposed to COVID-19, incuding those who work in nursing homes. The guidance...
Workforce shortage remains issue for most nursing home, assisted living employers: LeadingAge poll
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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%...
Homeland Security says proposed rule for temporary foreign workers will help employers
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Kathleen Steele Gaivin
Sep 21, 2023
The Department of Homeland Security said that a proposed rule published Wednesday in the Federal Register will “modernize and improve” regulations related to the H-2B temporary nonagricultural worker...
Workforce challenges threaten service delivery for PACE participants: Altarum
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Kathleen Steele Gaivin
Feb 07, 2023
Workforce challenges threaten to complicate service delivery for Program for All Inclusive-Care for the Elderly participants, according to the results of the second and final Altarum PACE Pandemic Response...
Nursing home sector’s economic recovery ‘in limbo,’ AHCA says
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Kathleen Steele Gaivin
Feb 07, 2023
Economic recovery remains “in limbo” for the nursing home sector, especially as the public health emergency — and the funds that go along with it — is set to end this spring. That’s according...