{"id":10604,"date":"2025-04-08T14:31:25","date_gmt":"2025-04-08T14:31:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/familymedicine.uw.edu\/chws\/?p=10604"},"modified":"2025-05-29T23:45:33","modified_gmt":"2025-05-29T23:45:33","slug":"uw-chws-team-informs-report-on-long-term-care-workforce-shortages-in-washington","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/familymedicine.uw.edu\/chws\/2025\/04\/08\/uw-chws-team-informs-report-on-long-term-care-workforce-shortages-in-washington\/","title":{"rendered":"UW CHWS Team Informs Report on Long-Term Care Workforce Shortages in Washington"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.khq.com\/news\/washingtons-growing-senior-population-needs-urgent-caregiver-workforce-solutions\/article_bbd24ccb-16a5-472b-9ea3-3cac51a5705c.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-10605 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/familymedicine.uw.edu\/chws\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2025\/04\/KHQ-300x168.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"168\" srcset=\"https:\/\/familymedicine.uw.edu\/chws\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2025\/04\/KHQ-300x168.png 300w, https:\/\/familymedicine.uw.edu\/chws\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2025\/04\/KHQ-1024x574.png 1024w, https:\/\/familymedicine.uw.edu\/chws\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2025\/04\/KHQ-768x430.png 768w, https:\/\/familymedicine.uw.edu\/chws\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2025\/04\/KHQ-1536x861.png 1536w, https:\/\/familymedicine.uw.edu\/chws\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2025\/04\/KHQ-2048x1148.png 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Washington state faces significant workforce challenges in long-term care. A team of UW CHWS investigators has been collaborating with the <a href=\"https:\/\/wtb.wa.gov\/\">Washington State Workforce Training and Education Coordinating Board<\/a> to identify which occupations have high turnover and long vacancies in the state. According to this <a href=\"https:\/\/wtb.wa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/LTC-WORKFORCE-REPORT-2024-FINAL.pdf\">legislative report<\/a>, &#8220;Extensive and prolonged staff vacancies leave beds empty and result in service delays due to an inability to safely and effectively care for a highly vulnerable population.&#8221; The findings from this report were noted by <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.khq.com\/news\/washingtons-growing-senior-population-needs-urgent-caregiver-workforce-solutions\/article_bbd24ccb-16a5-472b-9ea3-3cac51a5705c.html\">KHQ News<\/a><\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Work is underway to understand the barriers and facilitators to working in home health, findings which will be released in a future report.<\/p>\n<p>This report is part of the <em><a href=\"https:\/\/familymedicine.uw.edu\/chws\/studies\/washington-long-term-care-workforce-research\/\">Washington Long-Term Care Workforce Research<\/a><\/em> study, funded by the Washington State Workforce Technical and Education Coordinating Board.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":435,"featured_media":10605,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10604","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/familymedicine.uw.edu\/chws\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10604","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/familymedicine.uw.edu\/chws\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/familymedicine.uw.edu\/chws\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/familymedicine.uw.edu\/chws\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/435"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/familymedicine.uw.edu\/chws\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10604"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/familymedicine.uw.edu\/chws\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10604\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10815,"href":"https:\/\/familymedicine.uw.edu\/chws\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10604\/revisions\/10815"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/familymedicine.uw.edu\/chws\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10605"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/familymedicine.uw.edu\/chws\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10604"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/familymedicine.uw.edu\/chws\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10604"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/familymedicine.uw.edu\/chws\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10604"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}