Senior living, home care add jobs, while positions in nursing homes decline
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Kathleen Steele Gaivin
Sep 09, 2024
Long-term care saw mixed results in the employment situation summary for August, released Friday by the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
Business briefs, April 5
By
Kathleen Steele Gaivin
Apr 05, 2024
Occupancy closes in on pre-pandemic levels with 11th consecutive quarterly increase: NIC … Providers turn to a variety of sources when setting executive incentives: Ziegler … US Citizenship and Immigration...
Demand for direct care workers expected to outpace availability: report
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Kathleen Steele Gaivin
Sep 13, 2023
Demand for direct care workers — home care workers; workers in residential group homes, assisted living communities and other residential care; and nursing assistants in skilled nursing facilities —...
Immigrant labor could improve quality of care for nursing home residents: panel
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Kathleen Steele Gaivin
Apr 20, 2022
Increasing the availability of immigrant workers, in addition to solving an industry-wide staffing shortage, could improve the quality of care in nursing homes, Delia Furtado, Ph.D., an associate professor...
State lax in nursing home funding during pandemic: study
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Kathleen Steele Gaivin
May 12, 2021
A new study concludes that Connecticut health officials were lax in their funding and regulation of nursing homes during the first year of the coronavirus pandemic.