Tell your story and demand action!
The Adult Family Home Council is representing the challenges of our industry as a part of the Department of Health’s Long Term Care Workgroup. The legislated mandate of this workgroup is to assess the need for nurses and nursing assistants in long-term care settings and to provide recommendations in a report to the Governor and Legislature by December 15, 2018. Recommendations must pertain to worker recruitment, training, and retention challenges for long-term care providers in the sectors of skilled nursing facilities, assisted-living facilities, and adult family homes.
On August 24th, John Ficker of the Adult Family Home Council will be presenting to the workgroup on the challenges specific to the adult family home industry. These include but are not limited to:
- Current system was designed by initiative that only considered the impact on in-home workers
- Limiting recruitment to trained workers (HCA, CNA, or other)
- Limited access to training (HCA, CNA, Specialties, RN Delegation)
- Cost of training (tuition)
- Time of training (hours of the worker)
- Relevance of training
- HCA testing sites
- Low HCA test pass rates
- Challenges meeting arbitrary timelines (120 days and 200 days)
You can help by joining the webinar and sharing your challenges in hiring and retaining new staff. Join the webinar or come in person and submit your comments to this workgroup. Let them know the barriers you and your staff face. Ask them to be bold in their actions to eliminate barriers and develop systems to support workforce development in the long term care industry. Without quality workers, we won’t have quality care.
You can submit your comments during the webinar or email them to us at the Council be 8/23 to be included in the information shared with the workgroup members.
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I have advertised for 6 months on line locally and gotten one application. However she refused to work evenings, night shift or weekends. I know other homes in the area are having difficulty finding qualified caregivers as well. We even offer to pay for training if they agree to work for us for one year.
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