LeadingAge Kansas Workforce Commission Focuses on Strategy
The LeadingAge Kansas Workforce Commission met last week and conducted a strategic planning session to help guide the work of the association in this area. The group spent the day talking about how we affect...
Recognizing Employees Is the Simplest Way to Improve Morale
In a recent Harvard Business Review Article, David Novack talks about how a health system recognized his Oncologist for her 40+ years of saving lives. They sent her a plastic keychain which was clearly...
Project ECHO: A Proven Approach
The Project ECHO approach to leveraging the primary care workforce in rural and other medically underserved areas was developed in 2003 by Sanjeev Arora, M.D., a University of New Mexico gastroenterologist who wanted to find a...
Wage and Salary Report Now Available
LeadingAge Kansas and KHCA recently teamed up with National Research Corporation to prepare the 2016 Wage and Salary Report for Kansas. Two reports were published, one was for Nursing Homes and the other for...
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,...
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...
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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...
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. ...
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...
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...
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....
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...