Data from year 2003 as reported by respondents to the
Organizational Survey in 2004
The Senior Success Vision Council
Long-Term Care Workforce Sub-committee
Cuyahoga County Community College, Lead Agency
The Margaret Blenkner Research Institute
Benjamin Rose, Cleveland, Ohio
Project Team:
Farida Ejaz, PhD, Principal Investigator; David Bass, PhD, Co-Principal Investigator; Brenda Peters, Project Manager; Wendy Looman, Senior Research Analyst; Julie Rentsch, Research Analyst, Kelly Lutian, Project Assistant, Branka Primetica, Research Assistant
The Senior Success Vision Council convened a Long-Term Care Workforce Sub-committee to implement changes in practice and policy around direct care worker recruitment and retention in long-term care agencies. Participants include representatives from the Cuyahoga County Department of Senior and Adult Services, the Western Reserve Area Agency on Aging including the PASSPORT and OPTIONS programs, American Red Cross, HealthRays Alliance, AOPHA, OHCA, and other organizations. Cuyahoga Community College Centers for Health Industry Solutions and Applied Gerontology was selected as lead agency to spearhead Sub-committee activities.
The Margaret Blenkner Research Institute (MBRI) of Benjamin Rose, a research center with over 40 years experience researching long-term care issues, was hired to conduct a survey of all long-term care organizations in Cuyahoga County to examine recruitment and retention practices and concerns faced by nursing homes, assisted living facilities, and home care agencies.
This survey was mailed to 161 organizations in the fall of 2004 to collect information about their practices during 2003. Data collection activities, including follow-up mailings, interviewer reminders, and phone interviews, continued through the end of 2004. At the end of the data collection period 75 nursing homes, assisted living facilities, and home care agencies responded to the survey, a 46.6% response rate.
This document is the survey form that was completed by respondent organizations. The results are inserted next to each question. It gives a detailed look at all the data collected (exceptions noted below).
The original survey items are presented in gray, while the data results are bolded for ease of reading. The format of the data responses varies depending on the context of the question. Where appropriate, the average (mean) response is given, such as the average percentage of workers who stay longer than three months or the average number of clients a direct care worker is responsible for per shift. In other cases, the actual total number of responses from all respondents is given, such as how many reported using newspaper classified ads for recruitment, or the number of organizations that offered paid health insurance to full time workers. The percentage of the total responses represented by these numbers is frequently noted as well.
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