Do You Know About Glassdoor?
Last week at our Spring Convention and Expo, millennial presenter Cara Siletto asked the audience if they had heard of the website Glassdoor. Glassdoor is the fastest growing jobs and recruiting site. Glassdoor holds...
PEPPER Reports
A new PEPPER report with statistics through September 2015 is now available for Critical Assess Hospitals, Inpatient Psychiatric Facilities, Inpatient Rehabilitation Facilities, and Skilled Nursing swing bed units. This is available through the QualityNet...
HCBS Personal Care and Enhanced Care Services
KDADS posted new policies affecting Personal Care Services (PCS) and Enhanced Care Services (ECS) for all Medicaid Waiver programs on March 8, 2016. These policies define the changes in terminology and address limitations and...
LeadingAge Kansas Workforce Commission to Meet
On May 9th a select group of individuals from inside and outside of the membership, state agency folks, legislators and more will convene at the LeadingAge Kansas offices to kick off our Workforce Commission. ...
Predictors of Intent to Leave the Job Among Home Health Workers: Analysis of the...
In a recent article published in The Gerontologist, Dr. Robyn Stone, et al identified several predictors of why home health workers leave their jobs. Implications from this survey suggest that this is the first...
LeadingAge Kansas Workforce Commission Meets
The LeadingAge Kansas Workforce Commission kicked off on Monday to begin work on our workforce challenges. The vision of the Commission is To create competent, abundant, stable and diverse workforce to serve aging Kansans....
Eldercare Workforce Alliance
LeadingAge National is a member of the Eldercare Workforce Alliance and is addressing the issue from a national perspective. The Eldercare Workforce Alliance is a group of 31 national organizations, joined together to address...
Wage and Salary Survey Currently Underway
LeadingAge Kansas is partnering with KHCA for our biannual Wage and Salary Survey. We are urging all members to take the survey so we can have a statistically valid report. The link to take...
Joint Workforce Summit Provides Tangible Resources
LeadingAge Kansas and Missouri came together last week to host a Joint Workforce Summit featuring Cara Siletto and Dr. Robyn Stone. Dr. Stone has been researching and championing workforce issues for over 15 years. ...
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On July 1, 2016 CMS mandated that long-term care organizations are now required to submit staffing and census information using the CMS Payroll-based Journal (PBJ) system. This represents a significant change from the current...
Staff Retention for Quality and Growth
In an article for LeadingAge Magazine, Debra Wood writes about Staff Retention. Aging services remains a people field. Caregivers and clients build relationships, leading to better outcomes. That being the case, retaining frontline and...
The Hands and Hearts That Make Our Work Possible – Workforce Issue of the...
The Hands and Hearts That Make Our Work Possible – Workforce Issue of the LeadingAge Magazine - By Gene Mitchell, editor
While working on this issue I had a conversation with Adam Suomala of LeadingAge Minnesota,...