• Skip to primary navigation
  • Skip to main content
  • Skip to primary sidebar

InFront on the Workforce

Long-term and post-acute care publication

Subscribe | Events | Advertise | Contact Us

  • Facebook
  • LinkedIn
  • Twitter

  • HOME
  • ABOUT
    • Who We Are & What We Do
    • The Vision
    • Readership
  • RESOURCES
    • Important Links
  • Retention & Engagement
  • Culture & Leadership
  • Regulatory
  • Technology
  • Industry Trends

(6/11) Nursing Home Staffing During the Pandemic

By Joanne Kaldy / June 11, 2021

A new study confirms what we already knew: nursing homes suffered more than any other healthcare sector during the pandemic:

  • Nursing home residents and staff account for 34% of all COVID-19 deaths, even though they make up less than 1% of the population.
  • Partially because of the pandemic, the number of older adults living in nursing homes has dropped by more than 10%.
  • Overall, the total number of staff working in nursing homes fell. However, staffing level increased in some regions of the country hardest hit by COVID-19.
  • Staff workloads increased during the pandemic, and an hour of work before the pandemic didn’t go as far as an hour during the pandemic.
  • Staff stress increased, driven in part by PPE shortages, fears of infection, and concerns about spreading the infection to other residents or to their own families.

Read the full article.

Related Posts

  • (11/19) States Use Varying Approaches to Address Staffing Shortages in Senior Living During Pandemic
  • (12/8) How Do You Evaluate Performance During a Pandemic?
  • (11/29) New Federal Nursing Home Safety Bill Would Increase Staffing Minimums, Levy $10K/Day Fines
  • (3/4) Staying Put Surprise: Burnout Among Home Care Workers Falls by 12% During Pandemic, Survey Finds
  • (12/22) Performance Reviews During a Pandemic

Categories: HR Industry Brief /

Primary Sidebar

AROUND THE WEB

Items of interest from across the web.

  • As More States Are Legalizing Marijuana, How Should Employers Respond – HR Executive
  • Giving Thanks for Senior Living Employees, Leaders — McKnights
  • 22 States Petition CMS to End Mandate As 76% of SNF Staff Behind on Vaccines – Skilled Nursing News
  • 6 Ways to Re-energize a Depleted Team – Harvard Business Review
  • 7 Ways to Lift Up the Employees’ Morale Ahead of Holiday Season — Entrepreneur
  • Workforce, Financial Relief Focus in ‘Tumultuous Period’ After Midterms: Argentum – McKnights
  • 6 Steps to Creating More Inclusive Job Descriptions – HR Morning
  • Mental Wellbeing and Resilience: Tech + Culture to the Rescue – HR Daily Advisor
  • Employers Have ‘Flexibility Fatigue.’ But That Could Put Them on the Wrong Side of the ADA. – HR Dive(11/16) Employers Must Push Preventive Care to Inflation-Worried Staff – TLNT

View All

CONTACT INFO

Publisher: CC Andrews
440.638.6990
Editor: Joanne Kaldy

PO Box 360727
Cleveland, OH 44136

CATEGORIES

  • CULTURE & LEADERSHIP
  • RETENTION & ENGAGEMENT
  • REGULATORY
  • TECHNOLOGY
  • TRENDS IN THE INDUSTRY

Copyright © 2025 - InFrontWorkforce.com. All rights reserved.