Workforce

Will Congress continue to turn a deaf ear to the nursing home crisis if residents are dying for want of stability, if hospitals are backed up and unable to discharge patients for lack of admitting facilities?

Nearly 70% of nursing homes here are restricting admissions because of a lack of staffing.

Nurse assessment coordinators could start leaving long-term care facilities in waves and the resulting shortages would leave nursing homes struggling to capture full reimbursement, new research suggests.

New York officials are “proactively working” with long-term care providers experiencing staffing shortages tied to the pandemic and the state’s new COVID-19 vaccination mandate, according to a top...

A proposed federal staffing minimum would require most nursing homes to boost RN hiring and put RNs and LPNs in greater direct care roles. It’s a move the bill’s House sponsor calls necessary to support...

Findings of the 2021 McKnight’s Mood of the Market survey shed unsettling light on fragile workplaces and severely tested workforces.

Three rural Maine nursing homes announced their pending closures this week, all of them citing staffing challenges and the ongoing pandemic.

Experienced workforce professionals will share their latest take on managing labor shortages during a Sept. 23 McKnight’s webinar.

Vaccine hesitancy highest among Black and Hispanic or Latino health care workers; concerns include side effects, newness of vaccine

Risk increased for both current and long-term exposure to night shift work regardless of genetic risk for atrial fibrillation