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July 14, 2017 | Mike Pumphrey
If there’s one thing that hinders worker performance and overall company productivity, it’s employee stress. And when senior living and long-term care (LTC) providers don’t address it, that’s when...
July 11, 2017 | Mike Pumphrey
Millennials now comprise the largest share of the overall workforce. This, paired with historically low unemployment rates, and wage increases in competing industries such as retail and hospitality,...
July 7, 2017 | James Balda
Since the 1980s, baby boomers have been saying that the times, they are a changin’. As this large and driven generation has gotten older, its members are also looking for changes in many other facets...
June 21, 2017 | Peter Corless
As you know, employee engagement is the hot topic in senior care—and for good reason. The current labor shortage, which is only expected to get worse, means providers are rethinking strategies to...
June 20, 2017 | Jim Rubadue
Each year, we ask our customers to nominate their hard working, committed schedulers for OnShift's Scheduler of the Year Awards. Nominees should embody the mission of their respective organization...
June 19, 2017 | Mark Woodka
Happy National Nursing Assistants Week to all the nursing assistants who are dedicated to providing amazing care to seniors each and every day. It takes a special kind of person to do the job you do,...
June 8, 2017 | Mike Pumphrey
Senior living and long-term care leaders have plenty of tasks and stressors on their plates on any given day. Between unexpected scheduling issues, resident satisfaction and other unexpected events,...
June 7, 2017 | James Balda
A large part of Argentum’s focus on workforce development has been on attracting and recruiting the next generation of senior living workers. However, the need for accurate, internal measurement on...
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 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 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...
