Nursing home leaders have routinely pointed to staffing shortages as a top operational challenge, even in the years leading up to the COVID-19 pandemic. Now, the public health emergency has even further exacerbated the hiring challenges operators face. Those challenges were quantified recently in a Health Affairs study that examined pre-pandemic payroll-based journal (PBJ) data […]
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With skilled nursing facilities facing significant staffing shortages amid the ongoing fallout of the COVID-19 pandemic, a group of lawmakers and operators called for making it easier to retain temporary nurse aides hired during the public health emergency — with one major operator reporting 1,500 unfilled jobs in the state of Pennsylvania. Luke Pile, vice […]