This article by Irene Fleshner was orginally published on the OnShift Blog (A Senior Housing Forum partner) and is republished with permission.
I am finally fully staffed, and then one of my employees resigns.”
How often have you experienced this situation? If you’re like many senior care operators, this happens all too frequently. A study entitled “Entry and Exit of Workers in Long Term Care” conducted by the University of California San Francisco Health Workforce Research Center on Long-Term Care (HWRC) found that the rate at which workers are leaving LTC is outpacing the entry rate across all LTC sectors. And this situation promises to get more challenging as the demand for LTC workers is expected to increase as the population ages. For example, skilled nursing facility employment is projected to grow about 24% between 2012 and 2022.
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