Category: Staffing

Burnout and Turnover

A new Skilled Nursing Workforce 2025 report from MissionCare Collective highlights the critical link between high turnover rates in skilled nursing facilities and the quality of care residents receive. High turnover disrupts the quality of care, leads to burnout among staff, and ultimately further compromises some of the most vulnerable members of our society. The

Drug Addict on Duty

Nursing home employee Brian Kenny was arrested at Sunrise Manor nursing home after being caught on security camera smoking a “white substance.” next to a patient. Video footage reveals Kenny lighting up a pipe next to the patient and near oxygen tanks on the floor. The flame was so large that it set off the

Public-Private Partnership

The University of South Carolina and Lexington Medical Center have opened a 52,000-square-foot brand-new facility to train the next generation of nurses. This building is located on Lexington Medical Center’s West Columbia campus.  The new Satellite Clinical Education Building will be used by the university’s third—and fourth-year nursing bachelor’s students, as well as master’s program

Business Office Manager Sentenced

Keisha Carroll Banks pleaded guilty to wire fraud at a nursing home in Fairfield County. Banks worked for Ridgeway Manor Healthcare from July 2021 through November 2021. Banks was sentenced to 14 months in federal prison. According to the federal file, in her role as office manager, Banks had access to residents’ petty cash accounts.

KFF on Immigration of RNs

Since the COVID-19 pandemic, there has been a shortage of Registered Nurses (RNs), This may continue to grow over the next decade as there becomes an increasing need for healthcare. Demands for nurses will increase to meet the new requirements for nurse staffing levels within nursing home facilities.  Immigrant workers could potentially address this crisis

Unsafe Staffing Kills

The Iowa Capital Dispatch reported major issues at Johnson’s Bishop Drumm Retirement Center. So far one resident has died, and another was hospitalized. Staff need more help. Employees complain that the facility has unsafe and insufficient staff that cannot meet the residents’ safety needs.  A licensed practical nurse who works for Bishop Drumm allegedly told

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