Top 5 Staffing Challenges in Post-Acute Healthcare and How MSPs Solve Them

In the fast-paced world of post-acute care, staffing remains one of the biggest pain points for facility administrators. Between high turnover rates, fluctuating patient acuity, and an aging workforce, maintaining adequate staff coverage is both critical and increasingly complex.

That’s where Managed Service Providers (MSPs) come in.

An MSP acts as a centralized partner to manage staffing vendors, streamline workflows, and ensure quality and compliance across the board. For post-acute facilities, especially skilled nursing and long-term care, this model is proving essential.

Below, we break down 5 staffing challenges in post-acute healthcare and explain how a trusted MSP like LeaderStat can help solve them.

1. High Turnover and Staff Burnout

The Challenge:
Post-acute care facilities often face annual turnover rates exceeding 50%, especially among CNAs, LPNs, and direct care staff. This creates staffing gaps, disrupts continuity of care, and drives up recruitment costs.

The MSP Solution:
An MSP like LeaderStat offers a centralized talent pipeline, giving facilities access to pre-vetted, credentialed clinicians from a wide network of vendors. This reduces time-to-fill and ensures consistency even when internal staff turnover is high.

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2. Inconsistent Vendor Management

The Challenge:
Working with multiple staffing agencies often leads to inconsistent rates, unaligned contracts, and fragmented communication. This can result in inefficiencies, compliance risks, and inflated costs.

The MSP Solution:
A managed service provider consolidates all vendors under one master agreement, streamlining communication and creating consistency in performance, billing, and expectations. LeaderStat’s vendor-neutral MSP model ensures that you receive the best talent regardless of the sourcing agency.

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3. Rising Labor Costs and Overtime Spending

The Challenge:
To fill urgent gaps, facilities often rely on costly overtime or last-minute agency staff leading to ballooning labor budgets and staff fatigue.

The MSP Solution:
MSPs use data-driven scheduling and proactive workforce planning to anticipate and fill shifts cost-effectively. LeaderStat’s MSP model includes real-time analytics to track overtime, agency usage, and cost per hour, helping facilities make smarter staffing decisions.

4. Credentialing and Compliance Gaps

The Challenge:
Post-acute facilities must ensure that all staff (permanent and agency) meet licensing, certification, and training requirements. Managing this manually across vendors increases the risk of non-compliance during audits.

The MSP Solution:
LeaderStat’s MSP program includes automated credential tracking and reporting, ensuring that every clinician on-site is up-to-date with licensure and required documentation. This reduces liability and keeps your facility audit-ready at all times.

5. Lack of Visibility into Staffing Metrics

The Challenge:
Without centralized reporting, administrators often lack real-time insights into fill rates, time-to-fill, or vendor performance. This hampers operational planning and budget control.

The MSP Solution:
With an MSP, post-acute facilities gain access to custom dashboards and regular reporting, offering transparency into every aspect of the staffing process. LeaderStat’s reporting tools give you actionable data to optimize staffing levels and forecast future needs.

Ready to Solve Your Staffing Challenges?

Partnering with a Managed Service Provider can help your facility reduce costs, streamline operations, and ensure better care continuity—all while staying compliant with evolving healthcare regulations.

LeaderStat’s MSP services are purpose-built for post-acute and long-term care organizations.

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About LeaderStat
LeaderStat is a nationally recognized healthcare staffing, consulting, and MSP partner serving post-acute and senior living providers across the U.S. Whether you need clinical talent, interim leadership, or a full-service MSP solution, we’re here to help.

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