PALTgrow: Cultivating a Strong Careforce Together
Includes Multiple Live Events. The next is on 09/11/2025 at 4:00 PM (EDT)
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PALTgrow will host two final roundtable discussions on September 11 and October 9.
If you missed previous sessions, now is the time to join! Dr. JoAnne Reifsnyder will lead our discussion and present three key—yet simple!—activities that will improve your staff retention. One of them can be done in less than 10 minutes. We’ll invite you to choose one of those activities to try over the next month and meet again in October to share what you learned. You have the solutions. PALTgrow will help you learn from your peers about how to implement and sustain them.
NAB credit is available.
Ignite your staff retention efforts by joining PALTgrow: Cultivating a Strong Careforce Together
This Community of Practice (CoP) will work together to share and implement sustainable strategies to stabilize and develop their careforces. Working from a workforce development plan framework, CoP members will meet via Zoom for 45 minutes each month to share successes, receive CoP input on revised goals and tailored plans, and solve unanticipated or new challenges.
As described in the new 13th scope of work recently released by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, strategic workforce planning and development will be critical to manage shortages and ensure that post-acute and long-term care facilities have ample qualified and engaged staff to provide optimal and safe patient care in line with the needs identified by comprehensive facility assessments. Project Grow will guide you and your leadership team to take meaningful, sustainable steps towards ensuring a strong, stable and fulfilled careforce.
JoAnne Reifsnyder, PhD, MSN, MBA, FAAN (Moderator)
JoAnne Reifsnyder is a seasoned nurse executive with more than 35 years of experience in clinical practice, administration, consulting, education and research. She completed a postdoctoral fellowship in psychosocial oncology at the University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing, and holds a PhD in nursing from the University of Maryland, a Master’s Degree in nursing from Thomas Jefferson University, and a Master’s Degree in Business Administration from George Washington University.
Carolyn Kazdan, MHSA, NHA, BCPA
Carolyn Kazdan, MHSA, NHA, BCPA, is Senior Director, Healthcare Quality Improvement for the Island Peer Review Organization. Ms. Kazdan is a licensed nursing home administrator and a Board-Certified Patient Advocate, serves on PALTmed's Education Steering Committee, and the New York Statewide MOLST Implementation Committee.
Erin A. O’Brien, MA, RN
Erin O’Brien, MA, RN, is the Director of Clinical Affairs and Education for the Post-Acute and Long-Term Care Medical Association, where she oversees the development of the Association's clinical resources and educational programs and is the staff liaison for the clinical affairs and education committees. Prior to her work at PALTmed, she was a research intervention nurse for the University of Maryland School of Nursing, where she spent a decade educating and learning from frontline staff and leadership in nursing homes and assisted living communities throughout Maryland. Most of her intervention work has involved function focused care and managing BPSD.
