Hiring

The holy grail of long-term care hiring would have to be the ability to divine in advance who will end up becoming a personnel liability and workplace nightmare. Most providers try to do that with a combination of intuition, hypnosis, polygraphs, frisking and background checks.

Lots of research would have you believe that recruiting compassionate, qualified nursing home workers in small, rural towns is a difficult task — or at least harder than in large cities. Not necessarily so.

I think we might have caught some of you sleeping not long ago. That's the only way I can explain what happened - or should I say what did NOT happen.

Hiring smartly and developing a high-quality workforce were the subjects of a McKnight's webcast held today.