Hiring and retaining competent professionals managing service delivery is a challenging issue for all sectors of health and long-term care, especially residential care communities (RCCs). Considering the association between administrative turnover and replacement costs, lower quality of care, and poor resident outcomes, developing successful intervention programs to increase retention necessitates a better understanding of the organizational and personal factors driving the turnover. To rectify the exclusive focus of extant research on nursing homes and direct care workers, we examine correlates of administrator tenure using data from the 2010 National Survey of Residential Care Facilities, a nationally representative sample of RCCs in the United States (n=2,252). We find that administrators who are older and those without higher degrees are more likely to have longer tenure. Administrators employed in RCCs that are non-chain, smaller, older, with higher occupancy, and with a dementia care unit are also more likely to have longer tenure.
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