CMMI Releases Report on Re-Imagining Rural Health
On November 12, the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation (CMMI) published Re-imagining Rural Health: Themes, Concepts, and Next Steps from the CMS Innovation Center “Hackathon” Series. The report describes lessons learned from previous...
HHS Report on Significant Issues Facing Healthcare Workforce
On October 22, HHS’s Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation (ASPE) released Health Care Workforce: Key Issues, Challenges, and the Path Forward a report examining the current state of several sectors...
Study Finds Direct Link Between Nurse Burnout and Negative Care Outcomes
On November 5, JAMA Open Network published a comprehensive review and meta-analysis of 85 studies involving 288,581 nurses over 30 years examining the impact of nurse burnout on patient outcomes. Researchers found that burnout...
LeadingAge Kansas Workforce Survey Now Available!
Kansas Aging Services Providers,
On behalf of LeadingAge Kansas, I want to thank you for your participation in the 2024 Long-Term Care Staffing Survey. Your input is vital to helping policymakers understand the significant staffing...
Critical Nurse Shortages Causing Longer Shifts for Nurses
On August 28, Vivian, a healthcare hiring platform, released an analysis of the average shift duration across states for Registered Nurses (RN) working in long-term care. The report analyzed Payroll Based Journal (PBJ) data...
U.S. Labor Department Releases Revised Job Numbers
On Wednesday, August 21, 2024, the Department of Labor (DOL) released revised data indicating previous reports overestimated job growth, during the twelve months ending in March 2024, by as much as 812,000. The latest report indicates...
PHI Updates Direct Care Workforce State Index Tool
The online and interactive map and tool compiled by PHI has been updated with new data. First released in 2023, the tool rates states based on two composite measures assessing supports for the direct...
Home Health and Nursing Home Employees Likely to Have Educational and/or Medical Debt
A study published in JAMA Health Forum on July 26, 2024, analyzing medical and educational indebtedness among US health care workers found that 21% of home health care workers and almost 20% of nursing...
Economic Data Show Healthcare Job Growth, but Demand for Workers Continues to Exceed Supply
According to a July 5 report from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, the number of healthcare jobs increased by 49,000 in June, lower than the average monthly gain of 64,000 over the prior...
CMS to Host Webinar on State Strategies to Address HCBS Workforce Shortages
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) announced a webinar to be held on July 10 at 1:00 PM CT. The session will focus on the types and categories of workers that provide...
Moving Forward Nursing Home Quality Coalition, Phase II
The John A. Hartford Foundation has awarded the Moving Forward Coalition $1.69 million in funding to continue work on improving nursing home residents' quality of life. The new three-year award begins on July 1st,...
NEW ACTION ALERT: Support Legislation to Help Attract, Recruit, Retain Long-Term Care Workers
Please take action and urge your U.S. representatives to cosponsor the Nursing Home Workforce Support and Expansion Act (H.R. 7929). Introduced by Representatives Steven Horsford (D-NV) and Danny Davis (D-IL), this bill would provide...