Staffing trends study could create roadmap for helping long-term care industry
By
Kimberly Bonvissuto
Jun 23, 2022
The state of Pennsylvania is undertaking a study of staffing trends during the COVID-19 pandemic in an effort to determine how to help the long-term care industry.
Best way to honor caregivers? Address the workforce crisis
By
James Balda
Feb 22, 2023
In addition to remembering the caregivers our country has been blessed with, we should call on policymakers to do more to resolve our workforce crisis.
Home care providers declare 2021 ‘year of healthcare at home’ while they acknowledge acute workforce...
By
Liza Berger
May 21, 2021
Leaders of two key home care associations voiced their excitement Thursday regarding the growing legislative and regulatory momentum in the direction of home care.
Geriatric workforce funding in Senate bill ‘far too low,’ provider group says
By
Alicia Lasek
Aug 05, 2022
To reverse its ongoing staffing crisis, the long-term care sector is going to need heftier financial support than the Senate is proposing for 2023, industry advocate LeadingAge said Thursday.
‘Much more than pay’: Assisted living employees, providers differ on workforce shortage solutions,...
By
Kimberly Bonvissuto
Jun 29, 2021
Although senior living workers and providers in Texas agree that pay is a top workforce issue, the two sides are far apart on what tradeoffs, collaborations and compromises can be made to solve turnover...
Long-term care industry veteran plans to invest up to $40 million annually in ‘real solution’ to...
By
Kimberly Bonvissuto
Feb 02, 2022
Workforce shortages have been an issue for senior living and other long-term care providers for more than 20 years. But the pandemic finally prompted one senior living professional to put his money where...
‘Unique’ senior living workforce challenges have 3 solutions, former Speaker Paul Ryan says
By
Lois A. Bowers
Oct 25, 2023
CHICAGO — Three keys to solving workforce shortages in senior living and skilled nursing are changes to the country’s social safety net, reforms to immigration policies, and the use of technology,...
Healthcare execs eye new revenue streams, talent retention, survey finds
By
Alicia Lasek
Aug 29, 2023
US companies are upbeat about the future, focused on reinvention and less concerned about recessionary trends, according to PwC’s August 2023 Pulse Survey. But healthcare leaders cited talent retention...
Bill aims to expose business, hiring practices of temporary staffing agencies
By
Kimberly Bonvissuto
Jun 10, 2022
New legislation aimed at exposing the business and hiring practices of temporary staffing agencies follows long-term care industry complaints about price gouging and anti-competitive behaviors during the...
Expanded H-2B visa cap reached for the first half of FY 2023
By
Kathleen Steele Gaivin
Feb 02, 2023
US Citizenship and Immigration Services has received enough petitions to meet the congressionally mandated H-2B cap for the first half of fiscal year 2023 for foreign workers starting on or before March...