Senior Healthcare Blog

According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, the senior living industry needs to recruit and train more than 1.2 million new employees over the next ten years. Those employees are needed to fill...

The first Payroll-Based Journal deadline is approaching and CMS is taking some time to clarify their expectations for providers as they prepare their first submission files.

This year, the senior care industry has been marked by many staffing challenges, not least of which is a labor shortage. At the same time, the population of older Americans who will require senior...

Scheduling in the senior care space can be a complicated task. Between filling vacant shifts, monitoring overtime and managing labor costs, things can quickly get off track. This can affect not only...

When it comes to senior care staffing, many long-term care and senior living providers are scrambling to figure out how to best manage the millennial generation. A lot of the talk is focused on what...

Scheduling in senior care can be complicated. If it’s not staff turnover getting you down, it’s call-offs or an avalanche of PTO requests. When scheduling is done correctly, it can save your...

Senior care scheduling is no easy task. You may not realize it, but your scheduler wears many different hats within your organization. Schedulers often play therapist, doctor and mediator for your...

We’ve heard it time and again in the senior care space—the workforce shortage is upon us. That means competition is fierce for attracting new candidates, and post-acute and senior living providers...

Senior care has always had to compete for talent with retail, fast food, and other entry-level employers. But as the minimum wage rises across the country, pressure mounts at an unprecedented level....

It’s an exciting time of year around the Argentum offices. We’ve been hard at work on our upcoming issue of Senior Living Executive, which is a personal favorite of mine every year.

A one size fits all approach to managing your staff is rarely sufficient for post-acute and senior living providers, especially when it comes to communication. But effective communication is key in...

Overtime has always been a concern for senior care communities as they strive to manage their labor budget as efficiently as possible. However, the Department of Labor’s (DOL) new overtime rule has...