I read a couple of interesting articles about a nursing home employee who quit but tried to receive unemployment benefits. Stephanie Lindsey was a full-time cook for the facility. She quit Luther Manor Communities nursing home over the facility’s personal protective equipment policy. She then collected nearly $5,000 in unemployment benefits. The facility appealed. However,
Consumer advocates are encouraging CMS to end the temporary waiver on nurse aide training. The rule says that new aides cannot work longer than four months without becoming certified. CMS waived the certification and training requirement in April 2020. CMS implemented the waiver during the pandemic because it was a public health crisis. Providers argue it
Economic Good News According to Bloomberg and the Wall Street Journal, American economic output jumped more than 7% in the last three months of 2021. Incredible. Because of Biden’s economic policies, overall growth for 2021 will exceed 6%. These numbers are the highest in decades. In February, Trump’s jobless rate was 6.2%. Now it has dropped to 4.2%.
Vice News investigated the for-profit nursing home chain Life Care Centers. Vice did a fantastic job explaining the failures of the nursing home industry by using Life Care Centers as an example. Brilliant. As a nursing home attorney, we hear these stories all the time. It all comes down to unsafe staffing caused by unreasonable
A nurse practitioner (NP) and physician assistant (PA) are great occupations. Both provide career alternatives to advanced healthcare roles, but not as physicians. An NP attends a nursing school. A PA attends a medical school or center of medicine. Nurses follow a patient-centered model, in which they focus on disease prevention and health education. NPs
Protect the Residents New evidence shows that nursing home staff vaccination rates are the biggest safety factor on the resident population. In fact, nursing homes with the lowest staff vaccination rates had more than two times the resident COVID-19 cases compared with homes with the highest staff vaccination rates. The same facility had three times
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