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Payroll-Based Journal: CMS Says It’s Here To Stay & Sets Deadline

March 31, 2016 | Peter Corless

On March 18, 2016 the Centers of Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) issued an S&C memo entitled "Payroll-Based Journal (PBJ) – Implementation of required electronic submission of Staffing Data for...

How to Manage New Technology in Your Senior Care Community

March 24, 2016 | Jim Rubadue

How do you feel about change? Bill Murray’s character in the movie “Groundhog Day,” stuck as he was in an endlessly repeating day, eventually comes to appreciate that “Anything different is good.” At...

OnShift & Argentum Addressing Workforce Challenges in Senior Living

March 10, 2016 | Marti Bowman

OnShift made an exciting announcement in February: we’ve partnered with national senior living association Argentum (formerly Assisted Living Federation of America) on a three-year initiative that...

Skilled Nursing Facility Assessment: Valuable & Not Complex

February 29, 2016 | Irene Fleshner

Last summer, CMS issued proposed changes to the Requirements of Participation for Nursing Homes (RofP). They requested comments on the proposed changes and the stakeholder community was neither quiet...

Inside Argentum’s Senior Living Workforce Credentialing Plans

February 19, 2016 | Mike Pumphrey

Establishing career paths and promoting career development have increasingly come into focus for senior living providers seeking to combat turnover and bolster a consistent workforce. They can also...

4 Keys to Managing the 5G Workforce in Senior Living

February 11, 2016 | Mark Woodka

Staffing is one of the top issues keeping senior living executives up at night.

4 Tips for Attracting Millennial Talent in Senior Care

February 2, 2016 | Marti Bowman

Attracting millennial talent to the senior care industry should be a top priority for providers amid a significant caregiver shortage. Tapping this generation can prove challenging, though, and...

Staff Scheduling Software in Senior Care Meets the Age of Transparency

January 28, 2016 | JT Tan

“Transparency, or accurate observability, of an organization’s low-level activities, routines, behaviors, output, and performance provides the foundation of both organizational learning and...

How Senior Care Leaders Can Improve the Lives of Frontline Workers

January 21, 2016 | Mike Pumphrey

When the owner of 80 California nursing homes last week purchased 18,000 Powerball tickets for his employees and residents and one nurse believed she had won, that owner easily could have been named...

Caregiver Retention & Engagement Shines at PointClickCare Summit

January 18, 2016 | Patrick Manfroni

Over one thousand people stormed Palm Springs recently for the annual PointClickCare (PCC) Summit. The event was flush with poignant educational sessions and networking opportunities that captivated...

3 Tips for Happier Senior Care Employees in the New Year

December 15, 2015 | Irene Fleshner

Happy is a word we hear used a lot during the holidays. I started to think about the meaning of “happy,” and found myself singing the Pharrell Williams song, “Happy,” and then thought of a smiley...

CMS' Comprehensive Care for Joint Replacement Model & Long-Term Care

December 9, 2015 | Peter Corless

On November 16, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) released the final rule to implement a new Medicare Part A and B payment model called the Comprehensive Care for Joint Replacement...