MADISON, Wis. (WMTV) – Nearly two dozen nursing homes have closed since 2020, according to LeadingAge Wisconsin. Experts say these closures are disproportionately impacting rural communities, and leaving a hole in the health care system. Oakwood Village in Madison celebrated an open house on Wednesday at its new modern facility featuring 60 beds, 450-square-foot suites and a café. “A very
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The skilled nursing sector is in the midst of upheaval, and providers must create and execute on strategies that involve difficult choices and significant financial investments if they hope to thrive in the future. “We are in a period of disruption,” Dana Wollschlager, partner and industry practice leader of senior living development and advisory services for Plante Moran Living Forward,
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Stretched emergency departments, working conditions for senior nurses, frustrations around visa applications for incoming nurses and poor intakes for nursing courses at domestic universities all discussed. Verrall says she agrees that change is needed. “I knew many of the nurses I sat down with today. When I hear their stories I can imagine exactly what it will be like because
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While the peak of the COVID pandemic may be behind us, the United States health care industry continues to deal with unprecedented staffing shortages, particularly when it comes to nurses. Even a cursory Google search brings up a multitude of stories and reports on this growing shortage, including here in New York. For example, one 2022 report suggests the total
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Like so many others in aged care, Viv Allanson says it is going to be “impossible” for her facility to meet key government deadlines for new standards in the sector, saying “the pressure is absolutely enormous”. Ms Allanson runs Maroba Aged Care in the New South Wales city of Newcastle, which is scrambling to recruit enough registered nurses to staff
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The Washington state senate passed a bill to address the health care staffing shortage by mitigating unmanageablepatient loads and worker burnout. Senate Bill 5236 sponsored by Senator June Robinson (D-Everett) will require hospitals to submit staffing plans to the Department of Health. The expected staff-to-patient staffing standards would be developed by a hospital’s designated nurse staffing committee, composed of 50% nursing
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Northern Arizona University (NAU) recently received a $6.4 million grant as part of an Arizona Department of Health Services (ADHS) initiative meant to address Arizona’s nursing shortage. The university was one of five institutions across the state to receive grant money on Jan. 31, which together totals $43.1 million. Each university will be using the grant to fund scholarships in
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We used data from National Health Workforce Account 2018, Periodic Labour Force Survey 2018–19, population projection of Census of India, and government documents and reports. We distinguish between total stock of health professionals and active health workforce. We estimated current shortages in the health workforce using WHO and ILO recommended health worker:population ratio thresholds and extrapolated the supply of health
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When the pandemic emergency declarations end on May 11, so too will covid-era government subsidies. And when that happens, perhaps no industry will be more affected than the nursing home industry. That’s why the American Health Care Association (AHCA) is sounding the alarm. The group, which which represents thousands of nursing homes, warned this week that more than half of all nursing
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ShiftMed, a healthcare workforce management marketplace, announced yesterday that it has raised $200 million to expand its footprint and grow its acute, in-home, and health system service lines. The funding was led by Panoramic Ventures with participation from Blue Heron Capital and Audacious Capital. The company reports that it has raised a total of $250 million to date. Unlike many
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