Senior Healthcare Blog

With a better sense of how to attract top millennial talent, senior care providers might believe the hardest part of developing an effective staff—recruitment and training—is behind them. However,...

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...

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

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...

The past year was a busy one for senior living providers. And while business is booming for many, there are some serious challenges that lie ahead when it comes to staffing for organizations large...

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...

A dwindling labor force, significant wage pressures and a sometimes grueling work environment overwhelmed by increasing resident acuity are reasons recruiting and retaining an effective staff in the...

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...

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...

If you have frequently recurring holes in your staff scheduling, your first inclination might be to hire more people. That’s not necessarily the wrong move, but jumping into hiring might be premature...

In football, overtime is a bonus for fans and elevates the excitement to another level. For long-term care and senior living communities, overtime can be a useful tool in covering shifts, or it can...

The American Health Care Association recently took over San Antonio with its 66^th Annual Convention. As they say, “Everything is bigger in Texas” and the educational content and best practices shared...