If you’ve tried to fill a vacant position in long-term care in the last few months (OK, years), you don’t need me to tell you it’s tough out there.
Even as skilled nursing providers compete against each other — for workers, referrals, maybe sheer survival — they know this crisis is larger than any individual challenge. That’s why so many are willing to share strategies that move the needle, if only the slightest bit.
Over the last few weeks, I’ve talked with several facility leaders who’ve gone to desperate measures to find decent job candidates and then tried to lure them in with over-the-top incentives. Others are doing anything they can to keep current workers, given that hospitals and agencies continue to offer outlandish hazard pay.
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