Immigration reform needed to solve caregiver shortage: Brookings
By
Kathleen Steele Gaivin
Apr 09, 2024
Immigration reform is necessary to expand the availability of caregivers, according to experts at the Brookings Institution.
‘Knowledge is power’ in campaign to improve staff vaccine uptake
By
Kimberly Bonvissuto
Apr 21, 2021
Knowledge is power. Forest Hills of DC, an assisted living, memory care, skilled nursing and short-term rehabilitation provider in the nation’s capital, used that mantra to move the needle on staff vaccine...
Home care’s greatest challenge and opportunity is its workforce
By
Helen Adeosun
May 25, 2021
With a rapidly aging population that increasingly wishes to age in place even before the pandemic, the demand for home care will continue to increase against the backdrop of existing care worker shortages.
Citing critical healthcare worker shortage, governor proposes $72 million for training
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Kathleen Steele Gaivin
Mar 21, 2022
Nursing and healthcare worker shortage, Connecticut Gov. Ned Lamont (D) has proposed allocating $72 million from the state’s coronavirus relief funds to help students and universities that train nurses...
59 percent of assisted living providers report workforce decline since 2020: AHCA/NCAL survey
By
Kimberly Bonvissuto
Jun 24, 2021
Fifty-nine percent of assisted living providers responding to a small survey by the American Health Care Association / National Center for Assisted Living said that their overall “workforce situation”...
61 percent of assisted living operators say workforce issues might force them to close
By
Kimberly Bonvissuto
Sep 23, 2021
Sixty-one percent of assisted living operators responding to a recent survey by the American Health Care Association / National Center for Assisted Living said they fear that workforce issues will force...
Study: Immigrants account for 25.7 percent of workforce in long-term care sector that includes senior...
By
Lois A. Bowers
Jun 04, 2019
The percentage includes more than 214,000 workers, said the authors, from Harvard Medical School and Hunter College of the City University of New York.
Healthcare employers more likely than those in other industries to shrink workforce: survey
By
Kathleen Steele Gaivin
Jul 29, 2022
More than 40% of employers plan on expanding their workforces this year, but healthcare employers are not among them. That’s according to the results of a recent Fisher Phillips flash survey published...
New program’s ambitious goal is to train more than 1,000 CNAs
By
Kathleen Steele Gaivin
Dec 09, 2021
Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz (D) and state health officials announced a program to boost the long-term care workforce through a partnership among the colleges in the Minnesota state system, long-term providers...
Bill aims to build up nursing home workforce
By
Kathleen Steele Gaivin
May 16, 2022
Federal legislation introduced Thursday would extend temporary pandemic-era allowances in an effort to build up the nursing home workforce.