National HealthCare Corp. ends 2023 with 5.1% year-over-year increase in net operating revenues, grant income … Brightview program a BADGE of honor for employee growth, development … AHCA/NCAL’s...
States increase efforts to draw workers to healthcare
By
Kathleen Steele Gaivin
Jul 03, 2024
Multiple states are taking efforts to build the healthcare workforce with training and certification programs.
Proposed state budget makes critical investments in senior living and care, advocates say
By
Kathleen Steele Gaivin
Mar 01, 2023
Senior living and care advocates are cheering Wisconsin Gov. Tony Evers’ (D) budget proposal for 2023-2025.
With business support lacking, Ohio Legislature pulls vaccine mandate exemption legislation
By
Kathleen Steele Gaivin
Oct 01, 2021
A vote on a bill that would grant numerous exemptions to workers subject to employer vaccine mandates was postponed in the Ohio House of Representatives on Wednesday after the Ohio Chamber of Commerce...
Utah camera bill headed to governor’s desk
By
Lois A. Bowers
Mar 03, 2016
The Utah bill that would require assisted living communities to grant resident requests to install monitoring equipment in their rooms soon will be headed to the desk of Gov. Gary Herbert, where the bill’s...
Operators could face ‘significant roadblocks’ trying to access $46 million in workforce development...
By
Kathleen Steele Gaivin
Jul 11, 2022
Assisted living operators in Texas are eligible for grants from a $46 million fund set up by the Texas Health and Human Services Commission for a variety of workforce initiatives, including recruitment...
More news for Friday, April 2
By
Kimberly Bonvissuto
Apr 02, 2021
Worker pleads guilty to embezzling a quarter-million dollars from Indiana senior living community by impersonating CFO … Ohio Legislature considers bill allowing assisted living residents to put security...
$800,000 in scholarships to benefit students in accelerated BSN program
By
Kathleen Steele Gaivin
Mar 01, 2024
The state of Florida is providing funds for a scholarship program that will make 40 new scholarships available to nursing students at the University of Florida
Kentucky to implement direct-care worker background checks
Nov 24, 2015
Kentucky soon will require assisted living communities and certain other senior living providers to obtain national criminal background checks on some new employees as a condition of obtaining or renewing...
Judge blocks NY vaccine mandate for assisted living, other workers over lack of religious exemption
By
Kimberly Bonvissuto
Sep 15, 2021
A federal judge on Tuesday granted a temporary restraining order blocking New York state from mandating COVID-19 vaccinations for healthcare workers, including workers in assisted living communities, saying...