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A Culture of Trust Mitigates Effects of Staff Shortages

Post date October 28, 2021
Post author By Gene

Masonic Homes of California, which serves about 500 residents on its two campuses in Union City (in the Bay Area) and in Los Angeles County, has mitigated workforce shortages during the pandemic with its WeCare program to support staff. Early planning went a long way. Beginning in March 2020, Masonic […]

Evidence-Based Therapeutic Horticulture Program Improves Lives of Residents

Post date October 28, 2021
Post author By Gene

LeadingAge Washington regularly applies for Civil Money Penalty (CMP) grants to help its member skilled nursing providers implement creative resident engagement programs. These grants have included a “Cycling Without Age” program, initiatives using the PARO Robotic Therapy Seal for residents living with dementia, engagement technology in partnership with iN2L, and […]

Bringing Out the Leaders in Staff

Post date October 15, 2021
Post author By Gene

For Friendship Haven, a continuing care retirement community in Ft. Dodge, IA, a program of hands-on attention to staff development is designed to promote excellence and bring out the best leadership abilities in employees. The Friendship Haven Leadership Development Program is a way the organization wants to “encourage everyone to […]

Helping Immigrant Nurses Help U.S. Long-Term Care

Post date October 12, 2021
Post author By Gene

The acute shortage of frontline workers plagues long-term services and supports (LTSS) providers—and is now receiving much-needed media attention—but the struggle doesn’t end there. Providers face daunting challenges filling other positions as well, especially in licensed nursing. One solution to the nursing shortage is the recruitment of immigrant nurses, and […]

Board Leadership Helps Provider Weather the Pandemic

Post date October 11, 2021
Post author By LeadingAge

Twenty-five years ago, seniors in West Virginia would be hard-pressed to find a retirement community in their state, which resulted in a mass exodus of older citizens to neighboring states. Recognizing this gap, a group of people from local hospitals and nursing homes identified and reached out to Greystone for […]

Hard Choices in Search of a Living Wage for Staff

Post date October 11, 2021
Post author By Gene

As LeadingAge members navigate through a nationwide staff recruitment and retention crisis, finding ways to boost compensation is a crucial part of finding staff to serve older adults—especially the direct care workers that make providers’ missions possible. To better understand how and why direct care work remains undervalued and poorly […]

Bringing Broadband, Devices, and Training to Affordable Housing Residents

Post date October 7, 2021
Post author By Gene

Lighthouse for Older Adults is an initiative bringing high-speed Wi-Fi and digital devices to low-income senior housing residents. The program was launched in 2020 by the Center for Information Technology Research in the Interest of Society (CITRIS) and the Banatao Institute, a University of California research center focused on using […]

Putting Out a Red Carpet to Recruit New Employees

Post date September 29, 2021
Post author By Gene

As LTSS providers struggle to recruit new employees during an unprecedented workforce shortage, they are searching for new ways to recruit and attract potential frontline caregivers. This pool of candidates, 19 months into the pandemic, not only has a wide variety of employment options, but may be afraid to work […]

Pairing Jobs and Training for a New Generation of Employees

Post date September 29, 2021
Post author By Gene

Faced with a direct care workforce crisis that has been accelerated by the trauma of the pandemic, long-term services and supports (LTSS) providers are trying to find creative ways to boost recruitment and retention. One promising approach is to partner with high schools in programs that prepare students for LTSS […]

A Strategic Growth Plan Keeps This Organization Focused on the Future

Post date September 23, 2021
Post author By LeadingAge

Rockwood Retirement Communities is a nonprofit life plan community operating two campuses in Spokane, WA: Rockwood South Hill and Rockwood at Whitworth. In 2016, the Rockwood leadership decided it was time to look long-term and start creating a strategic growth plan. Their main goal was to identify, sequence, and prioritize […]