Proposals would exacerbate workforce shortages, provider groups say
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Kimberly Bonvissuto
Sep 20, 2024
Proposed changes to an existing law overseeing protections for older adults would delay hiring practices, create backlogs and become another unfunded mandate for Pennsylvania’s senior living and care...
Value-based care, tech, workforce issues among hot topics senior living experts dish on
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Kimberly Bonvissuto
Sep 12, 2024
Innovation, technology, affordable assisted living, dementia and memory care, value-based care and workforce issues were among the hot topics senior living experts discussed during a McKnight’s Senior...
Technology pilot study to focus on improving resident safety, employee well-being in senior living
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Kimberly Bonvissuto
Aug 27, 2024
Improving resident safety and employee well-being in senior living communities and other long-term care residential settings through technology is the goal of research getting underway at the University...
Improving workplace can lower assisted living nurse turnover rates, decrease burnout
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Kimberly Bonvissuto
Aug 20, 2024
Understanding the factors that contribute to burnout among assisted living nurses can drive interventions to ease high turnover rates, according to an expert in the field.
Staff development helps combat high cost of turnover
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Kimberly Bonvissuto
Jul 30, 2024
Although workforce challenges in senior living abound — including the high cost of turnover — there are “bright spots illuminating a path forward,” according to the findings of a new workforce...
More news for Monday, July 15
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Kimberly Bonvissuto
Jul 15, 2024
CMS releases companion guide to Medicaid Access Rule … Racial disparities in dementia determined by social factors, not genetics … Addressing loneliness over time may play important role in stroke...
Providers need funding to improve Medicaid HCBS access, quality, advocates say
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Kimberly Bonvissuto
May 01, 2023
Senior living advocates are applauding steps announced by the federal government to ensure equitable access to home- and community-based services provided via the Medicaid program, but they say that funding...
HCBS access rule heads to final review amid senior living industry concerns
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Kimberly Bonvissuto
Jan 31, 2024
A proposed federal rule establishing mandatory quality measures for home- and community-based services and requiring providers to allocate 80% of HCBS payments to direct care worker pay now is under final...
Better wages, working conditions key to attracting more workers to HCBS settings
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Kimberly Bonvissuto
Apr 21, 2023
The size of the home- and community-based services workforce has not kept pace with expanding numbers of Medicaid program participants, according to a new study whose authors contend that better pay and...