Agency Staffing

While the rate of inflation has cooled considerably this year, very few nursing home leaders are experiencing any relief, according to results of the 2023 McKnight’s Mood of the Market survey.

Attorney General Letitia James (won a preliminary injunction that requires a nursing home company accused of committing more than $83 million in Medicare and Medicaid fraud to pay for an independent financial...

Wages for travel nurses in long-term care facilities continue to rise along with demand, as providers contend with state staffing mandates and an anticipated federal minimum. 

Skilled nursing facility workers contracted through staffing agencies earn 40% to 84% more than in-house labor at rates that have grown far faster than inflation, according to a new report from a legislative...

While more state lawmakers are proposing legislation to rein in anti-competitive behaviors by some staffing agencies, a new turn of events in Massachusetts proves rules alone aren’t enough to suppress...

Senior care providers accounted for more than a quarter of major healthcare bankruptcies in the last several years, and with mounting pressures caused by excess staffing agency use and other financial...

MASSACHUSETTS — Four nursing homes in the same county announced they would close by June, chased out of the state by a “reconfiguring” reform meant to improve the quality of care.

Half of all nursing home providers and building leaders (49.8%) surveyed by McKnight’s Long-Term Care News said they would have to close in part or in full if federal regulators follow through with plans...

A state-by-state comparison of pay-rate disparities between agency nurses and their full-time counterparts is feeding the fury that disgruntled long-term care operators and other providers have felt during...

JAMA study finds reduced negative outcomes for US nursing home residents who got first available boosters … Comment period ending soon for proposed rule that would change how contract workers are classified...