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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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%...
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...
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...
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...
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...