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Five-Star Quality Rating Staffing Strategies
May 30, 2017 | Peter Corless
A focus on transparency and quality improvement has led The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) to up the ante on how Five-Star Quality Ratings are calculated and reported.
Making the Most of What You Have: How to Staff Smarter in Senior Care
May 26, 2017 | Peter Corless
The labor shortage in long-term care (LTC) has many providers in dire straits. With the growth of the aging population and projections calling for an additional 2.5 million workers, the outlook is...
Labor costs have reached unprecedented heights due to high turnover and a growing workforce shortage. This has led senior care providers to accept paying a premium for labor through increased use of...
Combating Turnover to Win in Today’s Senior Care Market
May 23, 2017 | Peter Corless
High turnover isn’t something new to this industry. Before the great recession of 2008, health care providers faced both a nursing shortage and high employee turnover. In response, senior care...
Why Managing Labor Costs Needs to Be the #1 Priority in Senior Care
May 22, 2017 | Peter Corless
The challenging environment in senior care has hit providers harder than ever, making it difficult – sometimes impossible – to stay ahead. Increasing wage pressures coupled with a workforce shortage...
Sink or Swim: What Senior Care Providers Need to Do Now to Stay Afloat
May 12, 2017 | Peter Corless
The post-acute, skilled nursing facility (SNF) sector is currently in a significant state of uncertainty, with the main problem being the lack of predictability in reimbursement when budgets are...
PBJ Update: Suppressed Star Ratings, Tracking Turnover & More
May 10, 2017 | Peter Corless
CMS has announced three changes it is making to this quarter’s Payroll-Based Journal (PBJ) submissions in response to some perceived difficulties that long-term care (LTC) providers had during past...
Winning the Battle Against Senior Care’s Biggest Workforce Challenges
April 14, 2017 | Peter Corless
The LeadingAge Center for Applied Research asked LeadingAge members to disclose their most prominent workforce issues in nursing homes, assisted living communities and home and community-based...
How Team Building Can Accelerate Employee Engagement in Senior Care
March 28, 2017 | Peter Corless
One major trend the senior living and long-term care (LTC) profession will certainly see in 2017 is a greater emphasis on teams. More and more, organizations are structuring their staff to be team...
Senior Care Employee Engagement Tips: The Rounding Rule
February 27, 2017 | Peter Corless
With countless tips and tricks circulating around how to best engage senior care staff, providers might have difficulty determining what practices can actually be considered “best.” Providing...
Senior Care Employee Engagement Best Practices: 1% Rule
February 22, 2017 | Peter Corless
Employee engagement is a top priority for many senior care executives in 2017. And it’s no surprise when you consider the high turnover and the resultant high recruiting and on-boarding costs among...
Are Your Employee Engagement Initiatives Working? Four Ways to Tell
February 16, 2017 | Peter Corless
Employee engagement has become a buzzword in the senior care profession as providers grapple with staff retention and combat high turnover rates. The solution: foster engaged workers, and...
