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Investing in Senior Care Shouldn’t be an Age-Old Problem

Jun 24, 2024 | cityandstatepa.com | Zach Shamberg

The must-read daily newsletter for PA's political community. Get it in your inbox. email It’s no secret that Pennsylvania is an aging state. Our fastest-growing demographic is adults aged 80 and older. By 2023, there will be the same number of adults aged 65 and older as young adults and children aged 19 and younger.
Special Report: Aging in PA

Jun 24, 2024 | cityandstatepa.com | Harrison Cann |Zach Shamberg |James A. Mehaffey |Greg Salisbury

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Implementing the federal staffing mandate will do more than just stir the pot

May 17, 2024 | mcknights.com | Zach Shamberg

How’s this for a truly perplexing recipe? Nursing homes are closing, access to care for seniors and adults with disabilities is being restricted, Medicaid reimbursement can’t keep pace with the true cost of care, and fewer and fewer workers are available for staffing the plethora of jobs available throughout the long-term care continuum. Yet regulators in Washington, D.C., think the perfect addition to this already-blistering five-alarm chili is an unfunded, one-size-fits-all staffing mandate.
What’s old isn’t working. What’s new is funding accountability and care outcomes.

Feb 21, 2024 | mcknights.com | Zach Shamberg

In 2024, Pennsylvania’s long-term care continuum, including nearly 700 nursing homes across the state, finds itself at a true crossroads of accountability and care outcomes. We’re two years removed from a 17.5% Medicaid reimbursement increase for nursing home providers — the largest in the history of our payment structure. Almost one year into the implementation of new, higher staffing minimums and ratios. And just a few months shy of seeing those ratios increase for CNAs, specifically, on July 1.
Zach Shamberg: Access to long-term care depends on workforce solutions

Apr 21, 2023 | triblive.com | Zach Shamberg

It seems like every industry is struggling with workforce challenges. In the industry of long-term care — nursing homes, personal care homes and assisted living communities — staffing challenges are nothing new. Long-term-care providers were battling a shortage of caregivers well before the covid-19 pandemic. But the last three years have turned the problem into a full-blown crisis, one that will affect all of us at one time or another.
Access to Care Depends on Workforce Solutions

Apr 14, 2023 | wfmz.com | Zach Shamberg

It seems like every industry is struggling with workforce challenges. In the industry of long-term care - nursing homes, personal care homes, and assisted living communities - staffing challenges are nothing new. Long-term-care providers were battling a shortage of caregivers well before the COVID-19 pandemic. But the last three years have turned the problem into a full-blown crisis, one that will affect all of us at one time or another.
Access to Care Depends on Workforce Solutions

Apr 11, 2023 | realclearpennsylvania.com | Zach Shamberg

It seems like every industry is struggling with workforce challenges. In the industry of long-term care – nursing homes, personal care homes, and assisted living communities – staffing challenges are nothing new. Long-term-care providers were battling a shortage of caregivers well before the COVID-19 pandemic. But the last three years have turned the problem into a full-blown crisis, one that will affect all of us at one time or another.