Internal candidates have edge in leadership transitions: Ziegler
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Kathleen Steele Gaivin
Apr 04, 2022
Among organizations on the LeadingAge Ziegler 200 list, almost 70 have had a turnover in the CEO role since 2015. Such transitions take careful planning, and for most C-suite positions, internal candidates...
Demand for senior living and care increasing in third quarter: study
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Kathleen Steele Gaivin
Oct 01, 2021
Demand for senior living and care is ticking upward, Moody’s economist Lu Chen wrote in a recent report. The combined national vacancy rate across long-term care property types, she said, trended downward...
Operators reach settlement with DOJ over immigration-related discrimination claim
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Kathleen Steele Gaivin
Aug 17, 2021
JP Senior Healthcare and JP Senior Management will pay a fine, pay back pay and train employees under the terms of a settlement with the Department of Justice over a claim that the companies discriminated...
‘Fractional executives’ trending in the C-suite
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Kathleen Steele Gaivin
Sep 13, 2023
“Fractional executives” are becoming prevalent in the C-suite, as reported by the Society for Human Resource Management.
RN wages projected to grow more rapidly than wages for other professions, study finds
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Kathleen Steele Gaivin
Oct 12, 2023
Registered nurse salaries are projected to increase over the next decade at a rate that surpasses the rate of increases for some other healthcare professions, according to the results of a recent study...
NLRA doesn’t shield strikers who don’t take ‘reasonable precautions’ to protect employer’s...
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Kathleen Steele Gaivin
Jun 02, 2023
Labor unions cannot use provisions of the National Labor Relations Act to try to shield themselves from taking “reasonable precautions” to protect an employer’s property from damage caused by a sudden...
Unions can organize ‘micro units’ under revived NLRB standard
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Kathleen Steele Gaivin
Dec 21, 2022
A Trump-era standard that prevented unions from organizing “micro units” that can include subsets of the overall workforce has been overturned in a decision issued by the National Labor Relations Board.
Physician groups ‘concerned’ about bill to expand nonphysicians’ scope of practice in SNFs
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Kathleen Steele Gaivin
Nov 15, 2022
Seventy-six medical associations have expressed their opposition to pending legislation that would expand nonphysician practitioners’ scope of practice, including in nursing homes.
All states must comply with forthcoming COVID vaccine mandate, former OSHA official says
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Kathleen Steele Gaivin
Oct 29, 2021
Individual states do not have the authority to opt out of the emergency temporary standard on workplace COVID-19 vaccines and testing expected to be released soon by the Department of Labor’s Occupational...
Hourly wage growth slowing across long-term care, Fitch Ratings says
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Kathleen Steele Gaivin
Apr 12, 2023
Wage growth is slowing as labor begins to stabilize in continuing care retirement / life plan communities, assisted living communities and nursing care facilities, according to Fitch Ratings latest monthly...