Staffing Shortage

It’s no secret that nursing homes dealt with challenges in staffing from COVID-19. A study released last week in JAMA Network Open aimed to better understand how nursing home administrators thought about...

New staffing ratios for Pennsylvania’s nursing homes that went into effect Saturday will combat unsafe working conditions and improve residents’ quality of care, union representatives claim. 

So here we are, on the cusp of a first-ever staffing mandate for skilled care facilities and things are getting a bit testy.

Direct care workers caring for older adults and people with disabilities—defined by the Bureau of Labor Statistics as personal care aides, home health aides, and nursing assistants—make up the largest...

Everyone has been feeling the nursing shortage, and now the Biden administration has tightened staffing rules, and that order will become a harbinger of more skilled nursing facility crises and closings....

Worker classification has become a contentious issue impacting a growing number of companies in the emerging gig economy.

Every day brings with it news that makes it clear why the nursing home sector cannot weather a new federal government staffing mandate, whether it’s a horrendous figure out of Kansas – where...

The healthcare industry has undergone significant changes in staffing over the years. From the impacts of COVID- 19 to chronic understaffing, various staffing models have emerged to meet the ever-changing...

“The only way to assure there is enough staff in a skilled nursing facility is to implement a minimum staffing requirement.” When you hear or read statements like this from a member of Congress, a...

Kansas hit a dubious milestone recently with the 52nd nursing home either shutting down entirely or taking beds offline since the beginning of the pandemic.