Skills Training is the Missing Key to Truly Unlocking the Workforce Shortage Challenge in Long-term Care Facilities
We're a nonprofit organization helping leaders lower vacancy rates & retain confident and competent long-term care staff through fully immersive, low cost, virtual skills training programs with live, board certified instructors.
The Engage with® Older Adults Skills Training program is proven to help you retain your best talent, so that you can focus on what really matters—improving resident care, reducing costs, creating a meaningful culture and positioning your center as a pillar of excellence in your local community.
Reduce Staff Turnover
Improve Patient Outcomes
Boost Morale & Staff Satisfaction
Today's eldercare leaders face significant challenges that impact the health of their center , its staff, and the residents it serves.
As a leader in eldercare, tackling obstacles is part of both the reward and challenges of the role that you have in caring for and engaging with older adults. The global pandemic has widened these industry challenges and deepened the crisis that the United States is facing today: a rapidly aging population with mental and behavioral health needs that will require more human resources than are currently available.
We are a nonprofit organization on a mission to help enrich the lives of older adults and those who support them by improving continuity of care—one of the ways we accomplish this is through focusing on equipping staff with necessary skills training that allows for them to confidently care for and engage with older adults, at every stage of the aging process.
99% of nursing homes and 96% of assisted living communities are currently facing a staffing shortage in the U.S.
We take a comprehensive approach to addressing the workforce shortage by addressing the core reasons behind why staff are leaving your facility.
Unlike many of the training programs on the market today—our affordable skills training program focuses on more than just meeting a compliance standard or checking a box for staff training. We focus on helping your center first understand where you are today with staff and resident satisfaction and tailor a skills training program to the unique needs of both your center and it’s staff. Our skills training program is an immersive, virtual training led by a live, certified instructor that helps prepare your staff with the necessary skills needed to confidently care for and engage with older adults, at every stage of the aging process.
Recruitment efforts, alone, are not enough to remedy the unique challenges that face long-term care facility leaders today.
Skills Training is the key to truly unlocking the workforce shortage problem.
Our evidence-based skills training program is the secret key to creating an environment where your direct care staff feels confident and fulfilled when caring for and/or engaging with older adults—resulting in increased satisfaction for not only your staff, but also your residents and their families.
3 clear signs that your center needs a skills training program that is focused on improving continuity of care.
Many leaders think that their existing training program is meeting the needs of their staff, residents, and their center—However, they still find themselves struggling with staffing shortages. If your center is facing these challenges, the Engage with® Older Adults Skills Training Program can help your center overcome them.
Your facility is experiencing a 40-75% or Higher Staff Turnover Rate
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A high staff turnover is a very clear sign that your facility isn’t leveraging a skills training program that equips your staff with the necessary skills they need to confidently perform their job. This is often the primary reason that direct care staff leave within their role within the first six months of employment.
Your facility is experiencing a 60% or less staff or resident satisfaction rating
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Staff shortages require you to lean even harder on your reliable nursing staff members to fill the gaps and ensure patients receive care—However, this is likely causing decreased staff satisfaction and higher burnout among your direct care workers. Resulting is higher vacancies rates for direct care roles.
Your facility is experiencing a High Vacancy Rate for Direct Care Staff Positions
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Staff shortages require you to lean even harder on your reliable nursing staff members to fill the gaps and ensure patients receive care—However, this is likely causing decreased staff satisfaction and higher burnout among your direct care workers. Resulting is higher vacancies rates for direct care roles.
We understand how challenging it is to grow your facility and maintain or improve your facility's level of excellence when your team is constantly battling staffing shortages.
Developing a pathway to retaining staff and reducing vacancies is the ultimate solution to addressing workforce shortages in long-term care.
We are a not-for-profit organization on a mission to help enrich the lives of older adults and those who support them
99% of participants that complete our skills training program would recommend it
Trusted by thousands of direct care staff of long-term care facilities across the U.S.
100% of all proceeds raised through our skills training programs gets re-invested in mental health awareness advocacy and improving the lives of older adults
FREE ONLINE TOOL FOR ADMINISTRATORS & LEADERS
What's the real cost that staff turnover is costing your center?
What’s the impact of not addressing staff turnover in your facility through focusing on skills training? Use our free online tool to calculate how much becoming a Certified Engage with® Facility could be saving your LTCC every single year.
In three easy steps, we help your center establish a direct pathway to retaining staff and reducing vacancies, allowing you to address workforce shortages head-on.
Our Evidence-Based Skills Training Program Accelerates Your Pathway to Becoming a Pillar of Excellence & Guides Your Staff to Maintaining It
Step 1
Join our Free Online Community
Take the first step with a no-obligation, no consultation. This call will be for us to understand you unique challenges and determine if our skills training program is the right fit for helping your solve those.
Step 2
Let us Develop a Custom-tailored Skills Training Roadmap for Your Center
Your center is unique and so are the challenges you and your staff members face. The second step is for our solution experts to tailor a skills training program roadmap for your unique facillity.
Step 3
Train Your Staff with the Engage with® Skills Training Program
Have at least 80% of your staff complete the Older Adults Skills Training module with a live, certified trainer in our virtual skills training center. With flexible training schedules tailored to your facility & staff and convenient access to our platform from anywhere, at any time—training has never been easier!
Step 4
Become a Certified Engage with® Center & a Pillar of Excellence in Your Community
Reduce Staff Turnover
Improve Patient Outcomes
Boost Morale & Staff Satisfaction
How our Skills Training Program is Uniquely Different than other workforce training programs on the market today.
Live, Licensed Clinical Instructor
Our virtual skills training is led by a live, licensed clinical instructor to guide the staff in both group learning and peer-to-peer discussions.
An Immersive, Digital World of Learning
Our virtual learning platform transports your staff into an immersive digital world of learning where their personalized avatar connects with other real student avatars and a live, licensed clinical instructor in real-time. This makes for a truly enticing experience for your staff to learn, breaking down barriers often found with traditional learning environments.
Live Training, In Real-time—Always
You'll never attend a one-size-fits-all pre-recorded training with us. We find staff learn better when they can ask questions and engage with peers in an environment that welcomes discussion and sharing perspectives. Our skills training is in real-time, instructor led, with peer-to-peer interactions.
Affordable training options
We offer low cost a la carte or subscription training packages. Our flexible pricing models are some of the most affordable skills training programs on the market—and we’re able to keep it that way because we’re a nonprofit organization invested in helping you effectively train your workforce and solve staffing shortage challenges.
AN IMMERSIVE, VIRTUAL SKILLS TRAINING CENTER
Provide your staff with an evidence-based workforce skills training that's been proven to reduce staff turnover by up to 40% in long-term care centers.
HOW OUR SKILLS TRAINING WORKS
Why our skills training program is so effective at getting to the root of the workforce shortage challenge.
We take a comprehensive approach to the leading indicators that drive better outcomes within your center.
Instead of just focusing on recruitment to curb the workforce shortage, we focus on the four key foundational pillars of Continuity of Care that have been proven to have significant benefits for long-term care facilities, it's staff, and the residents and families it serves.
Benefits of Focusing on Continuity of Care
A center that is fully optimized around continuity of care experiences continued benefits for the staff, the residents and their families.
When a facility focuses on improving continuity of care, they experience these direct benefits:
Adequate Staffing Levels
Adequate levels of staff and direct care workers to care for residents
Better Patient Outcomes
Strengthened Relationships
Strengthened relationships with facility leadership, residents, families, and their care providers
4-Star or Higher Facility Ratings
Facilities experience 4-star or higher DPH facility ratings, which have a direct impact on increasing the growth of the facility.
Higher Staff Satisfaction
Facilities experience an increase in both morale and satisfaction for staff members.
Increased Resident Morale
Increased morale and satisfaction of residents and their family
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