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Glencliff Home cites high vacancies and asks for funded positions to sustain discharges to community
Summary
Glencliff Home leaders told Division III the facility’s vacancy rates for nurses and LNAs exceed 50%, limiting census and slowing movement of patients into community placements despite recent increases in discharges to the community.
Todd (Louis Todd Bickford), executive director of the Glencliff Home, and Nathan White, DHHS chief financial officer, told the House Finance Division III that Glencliff’s work to discharge residents into community settings has shown progress but remains constrained by staffing and infrastructure challenges.
Glencliff is a CMS-certified nursing facility that serves people with serious mental illness and developmental disabilities. Bickford said the campus is remote and off-grid in places, which complicates infrastructure and broadband/Wi‑Fi delivery; the facility plans to install Starlink as a backup to improve resident access.
The home reported a substantial vacancy problem: overall vacancy across departments was reported near 37 percent, with nurses at about 51 percent and LNAs…
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