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title: "McKnight’s Long-Term Care News & Assisted Living: Operators Must Embrace Technology to Reduce Staffing Costs"
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# [McKnight’s Long-Term Care News & Assisted Living: Operators Must Embrace Technology to Reduce Staffing Costs](https://www.onshift.com/company/newsroom/mc-knights-long-term-care-news-assisted-living-operators-must-embrace-technology-to-reduce-staffing-costs-experts-advise)

 Written by [OnShift](https://www.onshift.com/company/newsroom/author/onshift) | Nov 11, 2011 12:00:00 AM

Nursing homes can survive recent Medicare and impending Medicaid cuts by embracing the use of technology to reduce staffing costs, said experts in a *McKnight's* webinar Thursday.   

Jeff Amann, vice president of operations at American Baptist Homes of the Midwest, said that staffing is long-term care facilities' biggest cost, and implementing efficient staffing technologies can provide an operator with the biggest savings. Implementing Internet-based staffing software helped Amann identify overtime hours as a key area of improvement.

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