Senior Healthcare Blog

It’s no secret that among the workforce challengesin senior care, staffing falls high on the list. With management of hourly employees taking the forefront of the staffing conversation, a major long-

Long-term care and senior living executives aren’t the only ones singing the praises of our scheduling software. Nurses, nursing assistants and other caregivers love how quick and easy it is to take...

Managing a schedule for a senior care organization is no easy feat. Creating the schedule, filling shifts, managing call-offs, monitoring staffing targets, managing overtime, and fixing time and...

This past Friday, OnShift warmly welcomed Mabel Johnson, a lively 102-year old United States Coast Guard veteran, visiting from Kansas City, Mo. Ms. Johnson was working for the USCG in our current...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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,...

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...

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...

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,...