McKnight's January 14, 2026
By all accounts, the past handful of years have exposed rampant worker shortages plaguing many, if not most, skilled nursing operators. And things figure to only get more challenging.
Unless more providers emulate Riverside Post Acute in Jacksonville, FL, that is.
There have been many creative long-term care workforce improvement programs over the last few years, thanks partly to the threats of the now-shelved federal nursing home staffing mandate. These have pumped up nurse and nurse-aide recruitment and education programs.
But Riverside’s could be the best so far. Talk about a win-win-win-win-win (you get the idea) scenario.
In brief, Riverside Post Acute routinely hosts second- and third-year medical residents from its next-door neighbor, a hospital. That means the 240-bed...
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