Recruiting and keeping good nurses is a major challenge for U.S. hospitals, notes Patricia W. Stone, PhD, RN, an associate professor of nursing at Columbia University who has
studied nurse staffing levels and quality of care, but wasn't involved with the current study.
One
study released in 2016 by Marshall University revealed that
staffing levels — considered to be a significant predictor of quality of care — for - profit chains consistently had lower levels of registered
nursing staffing, as well as lower
staffing hours, when compared to non-profit
nursing homes.
The article, written by Robert Jenkens, MSRED, Terri Sult, MBA, Newell Lessell, MBA, David Hammer, MS and Anna Ortigara, RN, MS, FAAN, reviews core Green House practices, published research, and two new
studies in order to address questions about the model's
staffing, organizational, and environmental design, and their costs relative to traditional
nursing home models and other culture change models.