New online training covers financial management for skilled nursing facilities
By
Kathleen Steele Gaivin
Feb 11, 2022
The American Health Care Association launched the Revenue Cycle Management Academy for skilled nursing facility revenue management training.
Lack of data makes it difficult to address workforce challenges: report
By
Kathleen Steele Gaivin
Aug 24, 2022
Data collection has not kept pace with the changing pace of the direct care workforce, complicating policymaker and employer efforts to address the challenges workers face, according to a new report from...
OnShift named to Deloitte’s 2016 Technology Fast 500 list
Nov 22, 2016
Human capital software company OnShift ranks 326 on Deloitte’s 2016 Technology Fast 500, a list of the fastest-growing technology, media, telecommunications, life sciences and energy technology companies...
Operators welcome delays in enforcing New York’s nursing home staffing requirements
By
Kathleen Steele Gaivin
Mar 22, 2022
Some unions and advocates for older adults are concerned that minimum staffing requirements for nursing homes passed last May by New York state lawmakers have not taken effect.
Long-term care seeks visa prioritization for ‘desperately needed’ workers
By
Kimberly Bonvissuto
Sep 08, 2021
Senior living and skilled nursing provider organizations joined forces last week to ask the State Department to prioritize foreign-trained nurse and healthcare worker immigrant visas to help address the...
Investigations in 660 tax and money laundering cases have uncovered more than $1.8 billion in alleged COVID-19 fraud over the past two years, IRS Criminal Investigation announced Thursday.
Long-term care sector must reinvest, rebuild workforce to meet ‘long tail’ COVID challenges: report
By
Kathleen Steele Gaivin
Sep 10, 2021
Long-term care providers — in senior living, skilled nursing, home care and adult day services — must invest in their workforces if they are to survive the difficult circumstances facing the sector...
Few long-term care operators report being fully staffed
By
Kathleen Steele Gaivin
Sep 23, 2021
Just 1% of nursing homes and 4% of assisted living communities participating in a recent survey by the American Health Care Association / National Center for Assisted Living reported being fully staffed....
COVID-19 making it even harder for SNFs to recruit, retain workers
By
Danielle Brown
May 21, 2020
Long-term care providers around the country are struggling to hire and retain workers amid the coronavirus pandemic.
‘Most important moment in a generation’: LeadingAge offers Congress blueprint to national aging services...
By
Kimberly Bonvissuto
Apr 02, 2021
Modernizing aging buildings, increasing affordable senior housing stock, investing in workforce recruitment and retention, and financing are key factors in a blueprint for building the national aging infrastructure...