Senior living provider hit with disability discrimination suit after failed drug test, job-offer revocation
By
Kimberly Bonvissuto
Sep 27, 2022
An age-restricted senior living community is facing a disability discrimination lawsuit after allegedly revoking a job offer to a veteran over a failed drug test.
HHS spending $103 million to reduce healthcare worker burnout
By
Diane Eastabrook
Jul 20, 2021
The Healthcare industry is getting $103 million from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to battle worker burnout.
‘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...
New staffing option for budget-strapped communities?
By
John O'Connor
Oct 14, 2015
Many staffing-challenged communities may be overlooking an obvious relief valve: social workers. New findings from the University of Missouri reveal that this largely overlooked group can help improve...
Senior living CEO gives himself a pink slip to try to push community into the black
By
Lois A. Bowers
Jul 20, 2018
Christopher Oswald is ending his 18-year stint at Blue Ridge Village in Martinsville, VA, on Friday, having decided to fire himself as CEO in an effort to help his organization survive.
New state laws emphasize dementia training, background check database access
By
Lois A. Bowers
Jul 22, 2019
S.B. 827 adds dementia training to the continuing education component for physicians and nurses in Connecticut, and S.B. 832 facilitates easier public access to the databases used for background checks...
Residential care workers have highest level of food insecurity among healthcare workers
By
Kimberly Bonvissuto
Sep 09, 2021
Low-wage healthcare workers in residential care facilities, including assisted living communities, were five times more likely to experience food insecurity compared with other healthcare workers, according...
Long-term care needs relief to sustain services through omicron and beyond, LeadingAge tells Biden
By
Kimberly Bonvissuto
Jan 26, 2022
LeadingAge is calling on the Biden administration and Congress to deliver an emergency relief package to sustain senior living and other long-term care providers through the omicron variant of COVID-19...
‘Deeply flawed’ bonus program excludes most assisted living workers, provider group says
By
Kimberly Bonvissuto
Sep 13, 2022
New York’s healthcare worker bonus program is “deeply flawed, unfair and discriminatory” according to one senior living industry advocate.
How 2 senior living providers solved their staffing challenges
By
Kimberly Bonvissuto
Apr 26, 2021
Two senior living providers offered a look at different workforce solutions to address one of the sector’s top challenges, staffing, Thursday during a session at the 2021 Ziegler LeadingAge National...