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May 25, 2017 | Peter Corless
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...
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...
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...
May 18, 2017 | Marti Bowman
I spent the better part of the first week of May in Nashville for the Argentum Senior Living Executive Conference. Having left a cold, rainy Cleveland, Ohio, I was hoping for some warm air and...
May 15, 2017 | Mark Woodka
Happy National Nursing Home Week to all the long-term care (LTC) professionals out there who make our nation's seniors a priority each and every day. With another year comes another theme, and...
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...
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...
May 4, 2017 | James Balda
We know the senior living industry needs to recruit 1.2 million new employees by 2025 to properly care for and serve the swelling population of seniors. One way we can work toward meeting that goal...
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...
April 12, 2017 | Mike Pumphrey
Most employee turnover in senior living and long-term care occurs within the first 90 days on the job, and with increasing competition and a skyrocketing workforce shortage across the industry,...
April 5, 2017 | Jim Rubadue
Nothing screams anticipation and excitement like March Madness. Personally, I can’t get enough of it! From the underdogs to the upsets, the road to the Final Four never disappoints.
April 4, 2017 | Mike Pumphrey
Some businesses believe that by paying their hourly employees competitive wages, they’ve done enough. However, there’s a lot more that goes into the oversight of hourly employees than paying them...
