LeadingAge PA released a report May 8 documenting workforce shortages and Medicaid underfunding that have forced nearly half of Pennsylvania nursing homes to turn away hospital discharges, according to findings published on the association’s website.
Google Keyword Planner tells a revealing story about the senior care industry’s SEO priorities. The term “assisted living” draws roughly 165,000 monthly searches nationwide. “Assisted living in San Antonio,” serving a metro of 2.6 million people, draws about 1,600.
Virginia is short approximately 17,000 nurses, according to a George Mason University study cited by local health officials, who say burnout, workplace violence, and training bottlenecks are driving unprecedented workforce gaps across the state’s hospitals and health systems.
Two bills introduced in the Ohio House Health Committee would mandate nurse-to-patient staffing ratios and expand nurse input in hospital scheduling decisions, according to reporting from WCMH. The legislation follows survey data released May 1 by the Ohio Nurses Association showing 91 percent of re
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Home care management software vendor myEZcare published an analysis April 30 documenting operational costs agencies incur when running paper-based workflows, according to content posted on the company’s website. The analysis cites a 2024 National Association for Home Care & Hospice study finding tha
IHPS, a national home care provider, now lists a formal caregiver sponsorship program on its website, offering international home care workers a path to permanent residency through the I-140 immigrant petition process. The program page isn’t buried behind an HR portal.
Federal nursing home staffing mandates could return after November’s midterm elections unless providers propose credible quality-improvement alternatives, a former senior Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services official warned at an industry conference this week, according to Skilled Nursing News.
Connecticut became the latest state to push mandatory training for homemaker companion workers when its House passed a training bill this week with overwhelming support. Florida already enforces Alzheimer’s-specific training under statute 400.6045.
An analysis from Your Lead Matrix found that automation cuts manual follow-up tasks by 80%.
Eighty-nine percent of medical decision-makers now trust AI-generated healthcare information to help them select senior living and care providers, yet most operators remain invisible to AI search tools because their digital strategies were built for 2019 search behavior, according to a nationwide st