So much for pre-employment screening and background checks. They should arrest the owners and charge them with malicious stupidity. Hopefully, their liability carriers will jack their rates to reflect their poor managment.
Not all the blame goes to the Care facilities. Many of the residents are indigent or their families have shielded income so it is not eaten up by the care giving system (which they did not adequately budget, insure or otherwise prepare for). We want grandma to be well taken care of but are not willing to shrink our inheritance or pay the freight out of our current income for good quality care. Accordingly the Medicaid payment ends up being the total funds available for care – resulting in low paying jobs, attracting many “marginal” workers of last resort to watch over “loved ones” in the deathwatch warehouses we call nursing homes.
My parents ran nursing homes for 30 years before they retired. Unfortunately, nursing homes are way down the ladder for nursing careers. The best nurses end up in hospitals and dr’s offices, where they are paid better. Talk about adverse selection.
Taken at face value this is tragic enough, but, the real issue is that so many parts of the system are broken — and, as a society of human beings who supposedly care about human beings and their welfare, we can’t rely on the government to fix everything. The government can’t change a culture that has enabled these things. It takes a village couldn’t be more true in this case. Sharing knowledge and information with the public and “seeing what’s behind the curtain” will force lasting change. http://www.gunthersgrades.com.
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80% were staff, of which 50% were nurses with known drug/alcohol dependence issues and the rest were administratorsand social workers.
So much for pre-employment screening and background checks. They should arrest the owners and charge them with malicious stupidity. Hopefully, their liability carriers will jack their rates to reflect their poor managment.
Not all the blame goes to the Care facilities. Many of the residents are indigent or their families have shielded income so it is not eaten up by the care giving system (which they did not adequately budget, insure or otherwise prepare for). We want grandma to be well taken care of but are not willing to shrink our inheritance or pay the freight out of our current income for good quality care. Accordingly the Medicaid payment ends up being the total funds available for care – resulting in low paying jobs, attracting many “marginal” workers of last resort to watch over “loved ones” in the deathwatch warehouses we call nursing homes.
Sounds like it’s not just the staff we have to worry about, it might be grandma herself, or someone else’s grandma (or grandpa).
My parents ran nursing homes for 30 years before they retired. Unfortunately, nursing homes are way down the ladder for nursing careers. The best nurses end up in hospitals and dr’s offices, where they are paid better. Talk about adverse selection.
…and taxation.. surprise, surprise
Taken at face value this is tragic enough, but, the real issue is that so many parts of the system are broken — and, as a society of human beings who supposedly care about human beings and their welfare, we can’t rely on the government to fix everything. The government can’t change a culture that has enabled these things. It takes a village couldn’t be more true in this case. Sharing knowledge and information with the public and “seeing what’s behind the curtain” will force lasting change. http://www.gunthersgrades.com.