Resources
Insights for senior living operators.
Perspectives on agency staffing, department budgeting, and financial efficiency — from a team that has sat in the operator's chair.
Cutting agency usage & overtime: a playbook for schedulers
Much of agency usage and overtime is preventable. A practical playbook to bring both down without leaving shifts unfilled.
Read article →Beyond the budget: tracking CapEx spend, approvals & deferrals
A capital budget is step one. How to track spend, keep an approval trail, and manage deferrals in skilled nursing.
Read article →How to build a capital budget for a senior living community
A practical, step-by-step approach — from asset inventory to approvals and a portfolio roll-up.
Read article →From buried spreadsheets to real-time oversight
Why department-budget spreadsheets fail communities — and what real-time oversight actually looks like.
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The operational challenges of working with staffing agencies in senior living and skilled nursing
Why facilities keep five or six agency contracts but use only one or two — and the centralized system we built to change it.
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Five reasons ShifTrak is helping communities fight the agency boom
From streamlined scheduling to real-time adjustments and cost management — five ways ShifTrak supports your workforce.
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Bloomtrak 2024: navigating the new norm in staffing & financial efficiency
How ShifTrak and SpendTrak help communities respond to staffing shortages and financial pressure.
Read article →More from the library
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- Leveraging technology to enhance efficiency and savings in senior living communities
- Embracing the cloud: the benefits of a cloud-based expense management platform over spreadsheets
- The power of bottom-up budgeting: why it outshines top-down approaches
- Managing a departmental budget: best practices for success
- Pressures mount for staffing agencies accused of price gouging long-term care operators
- 77% of assisted living providers say the staffing crisis is getting worse
- Long-term care workforce challenges remain at "crisis" level
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