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title: Understanding Staffing Shortages eBook | SmartLinx
description: Learn how senior care can reduce staff shortages in our new ebook.
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# Understanding Staffing Shortages eBook

### How employee engagement can combat turnover

### Download the eBook

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## What will I learn in this eBook?

Engaging healthcare employees and reducing turnover is more important and challenging in skilled nursing than ever before, as provider strive to deliver quality care 3 shifts a day.

This eBook provides insights into long-term care's staffing shortfalls and how to combat the underlying causes. You'll learn about:

- Issues jeopardizing long-term care facilities and how LeadingAge quantifies challenges.
- Best practices and new engagement strategies from industry experts to lessen their impact with 60 ideas to help solve the shortage.
- How to mitigate risks when designing engagement strategies to protect against misunderstanding and legal action.
- Why providers must seize the chance to improve engagement and performance from the ground up while creating a culture that showcases committed employees.

### Modernize your workforce management with Smartlinx

SmartLinx connects every employee and schedule to actual time and attendance on a unified platform, giving you trusted staffing insights in real time to help you deliver the highest quality care at the lowest possible cost for every shift and facility.

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**Schedule Optimizer**

Schedule Optimizer makes sure the right people are in the right place at the right time, every time.

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**Employee Engagement**

Access tools to develop a more connected, communicative, and empowered workforce to combat turnover and promote retention.

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**Mobile Shift Management**

Employees receive notifications of available open shifts, new schedules, scheduling changes, and more direct to their mobile device!

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**Reduced Labor Costs**

Use real-time data to predict overtime, and course correct to prevent it. Spot and eliminate unplanned overtime before it happens.

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