06/12/2026
AI is going to fix your staffing problem. It won't touch your real one.
Give it a year or two. The scheduling, the open-shift scramble, the compliance paperwork, software is going to chip away at all of it, and that's good news.
But here's what AI is never going to do: develop your next director, or notice when your best supervisor is quietly drowning and one bad month from walking out the door.
That's your real shortage.
So I'll give you the exercise I run with operators: pick your five most important seats and write one name next to each: who could step in for 30 days if this person left tomorrow? The silence on two or three of those seats is usually the real finding.
AI can read the data. It can't read the room.
That part's still on you.
Full playbook in this week's 3-Pointer Friday. Link's in the comments. š