Try the New KARE App to Find Temporary Staff
If your community is struggling to find temporary caregivers, medication aides, and nurses, consider a new, free app. KARE says it is the first labor marketplace dedicated solely to the senior housing and post-acute...
Careers in Aging Week
Save the Date! Careers in Aging Week is April 19 – 26, 2020. Join thousands of providers across the country on February 27th to plan and discuss what you could do to raise visibility in...
Careers in Aging Week Set for March 3rd-9th
Make plans to participate in raising awareness about Careers in Aging the week of March 3rd-9th. We encourage you to reach out to local schools including high schools, community and technical colleges and universities...
Everyone Wins When Direct Care Workers Earn a Living Wage
By Robyn Stone
Increasing pay for direct care workers would benefit workers, providers, care recipients, governments, and local economies.
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Competitive Disadvantage: Direct Care Wages Are Lagging Behind
New data suggest that direct care wages are Lagging behind In all 50 states and DC, the direct care worker median wage is lower than the median wage for other occupations with similar entry-level...
Team Member Student Debt Reduction Program
Article taken from the LeadingAge Workforce Website
Challenge:
Jan Roth, Vice-President of Talent Resources at Christian Living Communities (CLC) always has sought a variety of ways to assist and retain her current team members. CLC is...
Set Workforce as a Priority in 2020
What would happen if your organization took one year and focused all of its efforts on creating a workplace culture that nurtured, educated and inspired the people who work there? This means, no new...
Your Approach to Hiring is All Wrong
Businesses have never done as much hiring as they do today. They’ve never spent as much money doing it. And they’ve never done a worse job of it. This article from Harvard Business Review,...
Great New Recruitment Tools on LeadingAge Workforce Website
LeadingAge recently updated their website to include an entire section on recruitment. Visit the page.
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...
New Wage Reports from Medicaid Cost Report Data
LeadingAge Kansas is pleased to provide nursing home members with wage data captured from cost report data from 2015-2017. The following pages include hourly wages for all positions reported on the cost report. The reports...
Kansas Among 20 US States With the Highest Percentage of Unemployed RNs
Here are the 20 states with the highest percentages of RNs who had active licenses but were unemployed in 2018 (the most recent data available):
Note: The list includes ties and results in a numerical...