{"id":5947,"date":"2021-10-10T21:07:37","date_gmt":"2021-10-10T21:07:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/familymedicine.uw.edu\/chws\/?p=5947"},"modified":"2021-10-29T21:19:09","modified_gmt":"2021-10-29T21:19:09","slug":"long-term-care-staffing-challenges-in-washington-state","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/familymedicine.uw.edu\/chws\/2021\/10\/10\/long-term-care-staffing-challenges-in-washington-state\/","title":{"rendered":"Long-Term Care Staffing Challenges in Washington State"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-5952 size-medium alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/familymedicine.uw.edu\/chws\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2021\/10\/The-Collegiana_011-300x199.jpeg\" alt=\"Staff at The Collegiana. The Collegiana offers short- or long-term lodging for patients and their families in a friendly, community-like atmosphere near the UW campus.\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" srcset=\"https:\/\/familymedicine.uw.edu\/chws\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2021\/10\/The-Collegiana_011-300x199.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/familymedicine.uw.edu\/chws\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2021\/10\/The-Collegiana_011-1024x680.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/familymedicine.uw.edu\/chws\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2021\/10\/The-Collegiana_011-768x510.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/familymedicine.uw.edu\/chws\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2021\/10\/The-Collegiana_011-1536x1020.jpeg 1536w, https:\/\/familymedicine.uw.edu\/chws\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2021\/10\/The-Collegiana_011.jpeg 1600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The COVID-19 pandemic has added pressure to existing long-term care workforce challenges in Washington state. Across the nation, the number of individuals employed in long-term care has been on the decline according to Director <a href=\"https:\/\/familymedicine.uw.edu\/chws\/team\/bianca-frogner\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-auth=\"NotApplicable\" data-linkindex=\"12\">Bianca Frogner<\/a> who was recently quoted in Seattle Times. A combination of factors may be at play inculding lack of child care and burnout. Read the full story <a href=\"https:\/\/www.seattletimes.com\/seattle-news\/health\/staffing-has-long-been-a-challenge-in-long-term-care-washington-states-vaccine-mandate-could-make-it-worse\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-auth=\"NotApplicable\" data-linkindex=\"13\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The COVID-19 pandemic has added pressure to existing long-term care workforce challenges in Washington state. Across the nation, the number of individuals employed in long-term care has been on the decline according to Director Bianca Frogner who was recently quoted in Seattle Times. A combination of factors may be at play inculding lack of child [&#8230;]\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5952,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5947","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\/5947","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/familymedicine.uw.edu\/chws\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5947"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/familymedicine.uw.edu\/chws\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5947\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5953,"href":"https:\/\/familymedicine.uw.edu\/chws\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5947\/revisions\/5953"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/familymedicine.uw.edu\/chws\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5952"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/familymedicine.uw.edu\/chws\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5947"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/familymedicine.uw.edu\/chws\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5947"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/familymedicine.uw.edu\/chws\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5947"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}