Skilled Nursing News August 27, 2024
Strong leadership translates into a stable workforce, which is one reason why executives across the nursing home sector are recognizing the urgent need for support for Administrator-in-Training (AIT) programs. High turnover among leadership is causing massive ripple effects in just about every area of the sector.
But bolstering the administrator workforce has tremendous challenges. For starters, it takes more lead time to develop the pipeline for administrators in comparison to recruiting and retaining frontline staff, for whom workforce strategies can be changed pretty quickly.
And then, inconsistent licensure requirements, a lack of financial support from states while future administrators go through multiple years of training, and a lack of robust mentorship for AIT programs at large are major barriers to...
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