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Nursing home operators must foster a culture of care that attracts the highly sought-after workforce. Offering competitive compensation is essential, but it's just the beginning. Discover how leveraging benefits can effectively attract and retain skilled staff in this insightful #ProviderMag column.

Are you someone who radiates compassion, patience, and a genuine love for helping others? Your qualities are more crucial than ever in the world of home health care! The Challenge: A Critical Shortage of Caregivers • The COVID-19 pandemic has intensified an already critical shortage of caregivers in nursing homes, assisted living facilities, and home health agencies. Seniors, especially those in rural areas, are facing long waits for essential care. This is where YOU come in! The Solution: The Long-Term Care Workforce Support Act • A new bipartisan bill is set to revolutionize the caregiving industry by making significant investments in the direct care workforce. Here’s how it plans to support and uplift caregivers like you: • Fair Wages and Hours: Enforcing laws to ensure you are fairly compensated for your invaluable work. • Safe Workplaces: Implementing plans to prevent workplace violence and create safer environments. • $100 Billion in Grants: Funding to states to improve recruitment, compensation, and retention of care workers. • Career Growth: Offering opportunities for training and advancement, so your career can grow as you do. • Mental Health Support: Developing programs to support the mental well-being of caregivers. Why You Should Become a Home Health Aide: • Make a Real Difference: Your compassion can profoundly impact the lives of seniors in need. • High Demand: With an aging population, the need for dedicated home health aides is skyrocketing. • Growth Opportunities: New legislation is paving the way for better wages, benefits, and career advancement. • Community Impact: Help reduce the shortage and provide essential care to those who need it most. ✨ Ready to make a lasting difference? Your journey as a home health aide starts here. Join us! 👇 ✨ Cape May, NJ - https://lnkd.in/eiskF48i Washington D.C. - https://lnkd.in/efsvGpzx #HomeHealthCare #Homehealthaide

🗣️ The #health care #workforce #crisis is already here + Axios Caitlin Owens #goodread "Demoralized #doctors and #nurses are leaving the field, #hospitals are sounding the alarm about workforce shortages and #employees are increasingly unionizing and even going on strike in high-profile disputes with their #employers. Why it matters: Dire #forecasts of health care worker #shortages often look to a decade or more from now, but the #pandemic — and its ongoing fallout — has already ushered in a volatile era of dissatisfied workers and #understaffed health care facilities." - ... #healthcare #healthsystems #staffing #patientoutcomes #ruralamerica #primarycare #burnout #mentalhealth #nurseshortage #burnout

The long term care industry has had chronic issues with staff turnover for decades. There are many reasons for this. Ensuring the safety of residents in Adult Foster Care (AFC), one form of assisted living in Michigan, is a priority. It's critical to have strong and effective regulations as well as training and competency requirements for those who are a part of the medication administration process. Pending legislation known as Theresa's Law focuses on safety issues, that is, training the current staff to do their job with competency. Just because there is a staff shortage, doesn't mean you don't train the staff you have. If there's a shortage of firefighters, would you not train the ones you do have to do their job with safety precautions? Same is true for police or other roles where people's lives are at risk. - TRAINING IS AN INVESTMENT, NOT A COST. The biggest issue in assisted living Theresa's Law is trying to fix is the administration of medications by unlicensed staff with MINIMAL training and competency testing and mostly on-the-job-training from those with no required medical credentials. (required training consists of 2 online videos which total < 25 minutes.) Medication Errors is the #1 Category of Substantiated Violations for the PAST 4 YEARS in all AFCs in Michigan. "Medication Errors cause harm to residents, undue stress & turnover of direct care workers (DCW), and harm to facility reputation." - LARA (State's regulatory authority, Reducing Medication Errors & The Six Rights of Medication Administration) We've confirmed 73% of other states do not allow the passing of medications in assisted living by unlicensed staff. Michigan allows this with no required oversight. Everyone in the chain of risk management has no medical credentials or requirements. Learn more here: https://lnkd.in/eTQG5W3Y We welcome a conversation.

From day one of the workers’ compensation claim, it is important for all stakeholders to be thinking about the future of the injured worker’s care and identify every factor that is going to influence recovery. This should be monitored throughout the life of the claim – especially in catastrophic and long tail workers’ compensation claims that can last for years. The Independent Schools Compensation Corporation (ISCC) and #FutureComp Service Team is fortunate to have an excellent team of #losscontrol specialists, top-notch nurse case managers, and more to ensure that injured workers get back to health and work without further incidents or complications. https://lnkd.in/eWedKfHH #ISCC #service #team #nursecasemanagers #casemanagement #claims #workplacesafety #claimsmanagement #mentalhealth #health #workerscompensation #workerscomp #recovery #injuries #medical

Looking for feedback from home health agency and assisted living owners, administrators, managers, and recruiters: I've been seeing a lot of social media posts about how difficult finding caregivers, home health aides, and certified nursing aides can be -especially in rural communities. It is extremely common for skilled nursing facilities to use temporary healthcare staffing agencies to assist when they are understaffed, why don't home health agencies and assisted living facilities do the same? I have been extremely lucky with successfully recruiting and hiring compassionate, qualified, and reliable caregivers for my personal services agency. I would love to share the talent pool by offering temporary healthcare staffing assistance to home health agencies and assisted living facilities. If you are interested in trying this out, let's learn together! Maybe we can set a new standard in providing the care our aged and disabled community members need and deserve! #homehealth #seniors #homecare #assistedliving #tempstaffing #staffing #caregiver #HHA #CNA #seniorservices #seniorliving #ageinplace

The rising challenges faced by family caregivers highlight a critical gap in employee benefits that employers must address. The recent The New York Times article sheds light on the increasing reliance on family members for elder care, a trend that can lead to significant stress and financial strain for employees. SupportPay provides a unique solution to this issue by offering a comprehensive platform to manage daily family expenses efficiently. By incorporating SupportPay into your benefits package, employers can significantly alleviate the caregiving burden on their workforce, fostering a supportive and balanced work environment. This not only enhances employee well-being and productivity but also demonstrates a commitment to their overall quality of life. #HumanResources #EmployeeBenefits #EmployeeWellBeing https://lnkd.in/gXcFP43J

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In a new #workcomp Expert View, Nicole Usher shares her insights on the vital role home health services play in aiding the recovery of injured employees. Read more on WorkersCompensation.com.

Record numbers of doctors, nurses and psychologists are applying to join the country’s health system, lifting the number of registered health professionals by 18 per cent since the COVID-19 pandemic. But the system remains riddled with workforce issues. The raw numbers mask shortages in certain locations and categories, staff burnout, a rise in part-time work and layers of red tape. Australia is registering 5000 new healthcare workers a month. So why is there still a staffing crisis? 🔗 https://lnkd.in/g3UxEvzM #mapleroo #nursingshortage #registerednurse #australianhealthprofessionals #anmac #cap #registerednurse #migration #job #jobsforregisterednurse