Senior Healthcare Blog

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...

It’s no secret that a major indicator of senior care providers’ success is staff retention. So it's good news for many in this industry hearing turnover is down nationally across leadership roles....

Recently CMS issued proposed changes to the Requirements of Participation for Nursing Homes (RofP) (think rules surveyors follow when they’re in my building). The proposed changes were developed in...

We just passed the first major milestone for the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Service’s Payroll Based Journal (PBJ) reporting. October 1, 2015 marked the opening of the voluntary process for...

Have you heard of a hack day (or a hackathon)? It’s where us software folk collaborate intensively to come up with and design ideas. We just held our first one at OnShift and it was a huge success!...

I recently channeled my inner cowgirl and spent a few days in Dallas at MatrixCare’s annual user conference. And what a trip it was! The days were not only educational and informative, but they were...

This year’s National Assisted Living Week is all about nourishing your residents – enriching their lives through mind, body, and spirit. But while you focus on activities with residents this week, we...

In the American workforce an important generational shuffle is taking place right under our noses.

Of course, generational shuffles happen all the time as one generation starts thinking about...

Long term post-acute care facilities across the country face staffing shortages due in large part to high turnover rates, a lack of training and advancement opportunities, and a workforce largely...

With the back to school season upon us, I’m beginning to angst over new schedules that are just days away. This means jostling a couple of tweeners every morning at the crack of dawn--which isn’t...