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Senior Healthcare Blog

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Staffing Hack: Rethinking the 8-Hour Shift in Senior Care

August 1, 2017 | Mark Woodka

I recently wrote an article for Argentum Senior Living Executive Magazine titled “Insights From The C-Suite: The Senior Living Workforce.” In that article, I outlined some of the best practices that...

3 Staffing Tips From Today’s Senior Living Human Resources Execs

July 27, 2017 | Peter Corless

I had the pleasure to moderate the Human Retention Strategies and Best Practices panel at the 2017 Senior Housing News Summit in Chicago. It was a great discussion where I shared my experiences and...

REPORT: SNFs Decrease Deficiencies Despite Staffing Struggles

July 17, 2017 | Peter Corless

The Kaiser Family Foundation’s recently released “Nursing Facilities, Staffing, Residents and Facility Deficiencies” report shows deficiencies have dropped across the industry from 9.3% in 2009 to...

Nine Stress-Busters That Create Employee Engagement in Senior Care

July 14, 2017 | Mike Pumphrey

If there’s one thing that hinders worker performance and overall company productivity, it’s employee stress. And when senior living and long-term care (LTC) providers don’t address it, that’s when...

Senior Care Perspectives: Retaining Today’s Workforce

July 11, 2017 | Mike Pumphrey

Millennials now comprise the largest share of the overall workforce. This, paired with historically low unemployment rates, and wage increases in competing industries such as retail and hospitality,...

Senior Living Smartens Up by Studying Generational Differences

July 7, 2017 | James Balda

Since the 1980s, baby boomers have been saying that the times, they are a changin’. As this large and driven generation has gotten older, its members are also looking for changes in many other facets...

Plum Healthcare Group Gains Visibility Into Senior Care Staffing

July 6, 2017 | Jim Rubadue

Relying on pencil and paper schedules or spreadsheets often means a complete lack of visibility into staffing—and this lack of visibility can be costly to any senior care organization. "Where are...

Senate's Proposal Cuts Medicaid Funding for Skilled Nursing Facilities

June 28, 2017 | Peter Corless

Healthcare is a topic on everyone’s mind right now—particularly those in the senior care industry. Titled the American Health Care Act, this bill, which would replace the current Affordable Care Act,...

Why Employee Engagement Requires a Systematic Approach

June 21, 2017 | Peter Corless

As you know, employee engagement is the hot topic in senior care—and for good reason. The current labor shortage, which is only expected to get worse, means providers are rethinking strategies to...

Profile of a Superstar Scheduler: Jen Thompson of Marklund

June 20, 2017 | Jim Rubadue

Each year, we ask our customers to nominate their hard working, committed schedulers for OnShift's Scheduler of the Year Awards. Nominees should embody the mission of their respective organization...

National Nursing Assistants Week: “Specialists in the Art of Caring”

June 19, 2017 | Mark Woodka

Happy National Nursing Assistants Week to all the nursing assistants who are dedicated to providing amazing care to seniors each and every day. It takes a special kind of person to do the job you do,...

The Dos and Don’ts of Dealing With Coworker Conflict

June 8, 2017 | Mike Pumphrey

Senior living and long-term care leaders have plenty of tasks and stressors on their plates on any given day. Between unexpected scheduling issues, resident satisfaction and other unexpected events,...