"Help Wanted" is LTC's Mantra. (NH News Notes).Maybe if every administrator in the nation yelled "Help!" at once, a few prospective caregivers would take notice and perhaps glance at the nearest nursing home or assisted living as·sist·ed living n. A living arrangement in which people with special needs, especially older people with disabilities, reside in a facility that provides help with everyday tasks such as bathing, dressing, and taking medication. facility--a solution probably as good as any, at the moment. Shedding light on the industry's chronic staffing problem, the American Health Care Association The American Health Care Association (AHCA) is non-profit federation of affiliated state health organizations, together representing more than 10,000 non-profit and for-profit assisted living, nursing facility, developmentally-disabled, and subacute care providers that care for (AHCA AHCA Agency for Health Care Administration AHCA American Health Care Association AHCA American Hockey Coaches Association AHCA American Highland Cattle Association AHCA Australian Health Care Agreement AHCA Austin Healey Club of America ) reports that more than 100,000 healthcare professionals are needed immediately in nursing homes. Based upon preliminary data, AHCA's survey, sent to approximately 16,500 nursing homes, discovered 106,982 direct care nursing position vacancies, with 65,333 vacancies for CNAs, 25,433 for LPNs and 16,196 for staff RNs. Compounding the problem, CNAs have an annual turnover rate of 76.1%, LPNs a 51.5% turnover rate and RNs churning at 5 5.5%. Final results will be available at AHCA's Web site, www.ahca.org. While the numbers are grim, AHCA sees the vacancies as opportunities for workers displaced displaced see displacement. by the souring economy. AHCA officials hope that this realization will spur congressional interest in the nursing crisis, and actually do something about the Nurse Reinvestment Reinvestment Using dividends, interest and capital gains earned in an investment or mutual fund to purchase additional shares or units, rather than receiving the distributions in cash. 1. In terms of stocks, it is the reinvestment of dividends to purchase additional shares. Act or the Nursing Employment and Education Development (NEED) Act (See Nursing Homes December 2001, p. 8, for more information). "We support placing the security of our country at the very top of the nation's legislative agenda," said Mary TellisNayak, president of the American College American College is the name of:
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