staffing mandate

When historians look back on the 21st century, many lessons will be learned. Among them, the importance of maintaining a good reputation and image.

The Biden-Harris Administration’s recent initiative to establish federal staffing standards in nursing homes marks a commendable step toward improving patient care. These standards, aiming to enhance...

There is a crisis in our nation’s nursing homes. The pandemic showed us what happens when access to care is compromised, and we are calling on a staffing solution that brings more workers to the...

For the nation’s nursing homes, the first three years of the 2020s have presented one peril after another. From facing down the COVID-19 pandemic on the front-lines, to navigating a sweeping staffing...

Quality of care in long-term care settings has been perceived as an ongoing concern that the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) aims to solve with its proposed staffing mandate. The proposed...

The ongoing debate about staffing requirements in nursing homes took an even more bizarre twist on Thursday.

My association administers a long-term care foundation that has given over $1 million in scholarships to workers in New Hampshire long-term care facilities looking to pursue their dreams.  Put another...

If it seems like it’s the silly season again in Washington, maybe that’s because it is.

Absorbed as you probably are in fighting through the long-term care staffing crisis while parrying a CMS mandate, I wouldn’t blame you for not noticing. But at airports across America, big planes are...

Skilled nursing and assisted living facilities have long relied on licensed practical/vocational nurses (LPN/LVN) as the “backbone” of care to keep nursing salary costs low and increase profits,...