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Committee approves reclassification of nursing-home manager positions after retirements
Summary
The Finance Committee approved reclassifying nursing-home unit manager positions up one grade and adjusting assistant director-of-nursing pay to address compression and hiring difficulties after two retirements, the county administrator said.
The Finance Committee voted Aug. 6 to approve reclassifying the nursing-home unit manager positions and adjusting assistant director-of-nursing pay grades to address pay compression and hiring challenges.
County Administrator Cassie Taylor said the request came from the nursing-home administrator but that the administrator, Mr. Wylie, was not present to present it. Taylor said the proposed change would raise the grade of three unit managers by one grade and include pay differentials if a hire is an LPN rather than an RN. The proposal also included adjustments to assistant director-of-nursing positions to avoid compression between the two manager tiers.
Taylor said the administrator had cited two retirements among unit managers as the immediate reason the imbalance had become urgent and that the nursing-home team had difficulty recruiting staff when managers were asked to take on extra workloads without a corresponding pay increase.
Member Rosamundoza moved the reclassification; Member Fagan seconded and the committee approved the request by voice vote.
What remains open: the nursing-home administrator was not present to provide implementation details, and the committee did not announce specific salary schedules or budget adjustments tied to the reclassifications at the meeting.
