Cooperatives: A Form that Can Help Solve Workforce Issues
The past week or so has seen a number of articles acknowledge the ever-more-looming workforce issues of home health aides. This attention comes from a new report published by PHI, a nonprofit research group...
Are Your Best Managers Preventing Progress?
Gaurav Gupta, principle of Kotter International recently wrote an article about how to support managers to lead progress instead of protect the status quo. Here is an excerpt from that article.
The best managers are...
UST Survey of Nonprofits on Unemployment & Employee Benefits
Survey Objective: To help identify current trends surrounding unemployment and employee benefit practices within the nonprofit community. The survey closes at COB on September 13th. START NOW. Participants will be entered to win a...
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...