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Senior Healthcare Blog

Looking for the latest workforce insights & strategies from top providers & industry experts? You’ve come to the right place. Our award-winning blog features fresh best practices around recruiting, hiring, managing and engaging senior care employees, so grab a fresh cup of joe, pull up a chair and jump right in.

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Our Workforce 360 Survey Report Is Here!

January 22, 2020 | Cari Rosenberger

In fall 2019, in an effort to better understand the priorities and challenges facing our customers and the senior care industry as a whole, OnShift conducted our first ever Workforce 360 Survey.

We...

How Onboarding ‘Buddies’ Can Revolutionize The New Hire Process

January 14, 2020 | Jenna Berris

According to research from Gallup, those who have a best friend at work are 7x more likely to be engaged in their job. They also tend to be happier, healthier and more productive. With 40% of...

The Top 10 Long-Term Care & Senior Living Blog Posts Of 2019

January 9, 2020 | Jenna Berris

Before we begin cranking out more content to help you solve senior care workforce challenges in 2020, we wanted to take a moment to reflect on our most loved blogs of 2019. It was the year of PDPM,...

How I/DD & Behavioral Health Providers Can Become A Top Workplace In 2020

January 3, 2020 | Cari Rosenberger

High employee turnover is top of mind for every I/DD and behavioral health provider we work with. In fact, in a recent survey conducted by OnShift, 78 percent of group home and healthcare providers...

Happy Holidays & Cheers To What Will Be Our Best Year Yet

December 23, 2019 | Ray Desrochers

This holiday season marks the end of my first year as President and COO of OnShift, and what a year it has been! I’d like to take some time to reflect on the past, but most importantly, offer you...

6 Ways You May Be Deterring Your Best Job Candidates

December 20, 2019 | Jenna Berris

With low unemployment numbers and small hiring pools across the country, long-term care and senior living providers are struggling to attract and retain the workers they need. And being short staffed...

Senior Living’s Bigger Impact

December 18, 2019 | James Balda

This holiday season, Argentum is celebrating in a different way. When we might have gone to laser tag or bowling, this year, at staff request, we are wrapping and distributing toys for kids. 

[E-Guide] Preventing Employee Burnout In Senior Care

December 13, 2019 | Tommy Marzella

Earlier this year, the World Health Organization declared employee burnout an occupational phenomenon, which doesn't bode well for senior care, an industry that's already struggling to attract and...

4 Tips For Attracting & Engaging Part-Time Workers In Senior Care

December 11, 2019 | Mike Pumphrey

The senior care industry has higher full-time, front-line worker turnover than competing industries like retail and hospitality, according to the research firm behind the annual Great Place to Work...

3 Predictors Of DSP Burnout (And How To Prevent It)

December 3, 2019 | Cari Rosenberger

According to a recent report from Gallup, nearly two-thirds of full-time workers experience burnout on the job. It’s become such a common workforce issue that the World Health Organization (WHO) ...

[VIDEO] What Are Caregivers Thankful For This Year?

November 26, 2019 | Jenna Berris

This year, we did things a little differently. Rather than have one our bloggers do the talking in our annual Thanksgiving post, we wanted to get the perspective of some of the hardest working, most...

Optimizing Onboarding At All Levels Of A Senior Care Organization

November 22, 2019 | Jenna Berris

Turnover is still top of mind for organizations as we inch closer to 2020. And while no one seems to have discovered the magic bullet to solve it, many are looking to their onboarding process as a...