‘Double Edged Sword’: Hospital Competition Requires Nursing Homes to Focus on Younger Recruits, Float Pools, Better Training

Nursing homes are under increasing pressure to transform their businesses and care models to cater to patients with higher acuity, shorter stays, and tighter budgets. The challenge isn’t just recruitment of staff with the right skill set, but also building an infrastructure that supports ongoing staff development. And this, in turn, calls for greater investment […]

‘Pulling Back the Curtain’: From New Roles to Old Ways, Inside Nursing Home Workforce Retention Wins

To sustain staffing gains, many nursing home operators are investing in specialized training, attractive wages, and career growth in order to compete better with others across the health care continuum, with many focusing on modernizing onboarding processes. Retaining certified nursing assistants (CNAs) has been problematic in many facilities, while the highly skilled role of MDS […]

Skilled Nursing, Post-Acute Providers Must Embrace ‘Death of Dogma’ to Survive Shift to Episodic Care

As payers and hospital networks increasingly treat skilled nursing facilities as just one stop along an overall episode of care, operators in the space have received a variety of messages about how to survive: Bring data, get to know referral partners’ problems, demonstrate your worth. But a leader at a major Philadelphia-area hospital network took […]