Staffing

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...

An analysis of the forgivable loans that many nursing homes took during the pandemic shows that additional funding can positively deliver higher staffing levels.

Connecticut’s nursing home owners will be required to disclose ties to private equity companies or real estate investment trusts under new state rules. 

What are the three biggest challenges facing long-term care? To borrow a familiar punch line from the real estate sector, they are staffing, staffing and staffing.

The fourth installment in the 2023 McKnight’s Workforce Development Forum series kicks off at 10:30 a.m. ET Thursday (June 22).

A third of skilled nursing providers report their workforce situation has worsened since late last year, with more than three-quarters still relying on high-cost agency staff or overtime to fill vacant...

After being stripped of leases for 24 facilities in partnership with Sabra, North American Health Services is regrouping around a dozen core operations and returning to its quality roots to fuel a potential...

Respondents linked this issue to feelings of overwork, with 71% saying that understaffing is the key reason for poor mental health.

With the Department of Labor’s recent lawsuits surrounding the use of 1099 contractors in healthcare, worker classification is once again becoming a hot-button issue. While a company’s position in...

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....