Has There Been Any Progress on Labor?
What has changed with labor in the senior care industry over the last two years? Back in October 2021, LevinPro LTC hosted a webinar discussing the senior care industry’s staffing shortages with CEO of Dwyer Workforce Development, Barb Clapp, and Steve LaForte of Cascadia Healthcare. Those interested in watching Finding It, Retention & Coping with Higher Wages can find the replay link here. Two years later, with the same panelists, Managing Editor Ben Swett hosted Has There Been Any Progress on Labor?, detailing the industry’s path towards labor stabilization, what has gone right, and what still needs to be done. Clapp and LaForte discuss how staffing issues have altered since 2021,... Read More »
60 Seconds with Swett: What Still Needs to Be Done to Solve the Staffing Crisis?
Will the senior care industry ever solve its labor issues? Before the pandemic, overdevelopment led to high levels of staff poaching in certain markets and rising wages to combat it. Then the pandemic, plus the government checks that kept many workers at home, led to more severe staffing shortages and the necessity for temporary staffing agencies to fill the gap, at exorbitant prices. It was around that time when we hosted a webinar tackling the staffing crisis in senior care and the potential solutions, with panelists Barb Clapp, who had just taken the helm at Dwyer Workforce Development, and Steve LaForte of Cascadia Healthcare, which LevinPro LTC subscribers can watch here. Nearly two... Read More »
Chartwell Retirement Residences: One Big Step Forward
Trying to increase occupancy for many providers has been a game of two steps forward and then one step backwards. This is usually because of the flu season in the winter months. The hope is always that the recovery will exceed the decline, year after year. The pandemic obviously through a wrench in that one. For Canada-based Chartwell Retirement Residences, the largest operator in Canada with nearly 200 communities in four provinces, the step forward after the winter months will be quite a big one, according to their forecasts. The good news is that their step backwards was much smaller this year than in 2022. Back in 2022, the company lost 130 basis points of census from December 2021 to... Read More »
Is Remote Work Really Impacting Occupancy?
There was an interesting article in the Wall Street Journal last week that claimed there is a relationship between soft occupancies in seniors housing and more people working from home. The gist of it was that with more people working remotely full time, or even part time, they are better able to check on mom or dad who might otherwise be thinking about moving into seniors housing, and postponing the move because the kids are more involved. The first problem is that this assumes that the kids live nearby, and the reality is that many of their parents have already moved to warmer climates. The second problem is that it is much more than the need to “check” in on them. If they really need a... Read More »
Brookdale’s Occupancy Continues to Lag Industry
Brookdale Senior Living reported its June occupancy levels this week, and while there were increases, those increases lag the increases for the overall industry, and absolute levels of occupancy also continue to lag behind the industry. Weighted average June occupancy was 76.8%, 20 basis points above May but 10 basis points below the occupancy rate last September. That is not progress, even acknowledging that the first half of the year is usually bad for census. Management observed that this was a 160-basis point increase over June 2022. While looking back a year is nice, let’s hope when they do it again in October that they are not showing a small 50-basis point increase year over year.... Read More »Schedule a demo
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