Virginia nursing home residents are in danger. At least, 20% of Virginia’s nursing homes fail to meet expected staffing levels under federal standards. The standard is to provide sufficient and qualified staff to meet the needs of the residents. Poor quality care is inevitable without safe staffing. Associate Health Policy Analyst Kyu Kang warns: “Facilities
Drug diversion occurs when medication is redirected from its intended destination for personal use, sale, or distribution to others. It includes drug theft, use, or tampering (adulteration or substitution). Substance abuse and addiction ravage the nursing profession and nursing home industry. Because of the unsafe working conditions, the short-staffing, and physical toll on the bodies of
Inconsistency AARP’s Nursing Home COVID-19 Dashboard shows good and bad news. Across the U.S., the AARP dashboard shows a very uneven level of vaccination among nursing home workers. The good news is that in areas with high vaccination rates and vaccine mandates, the nursing home residents are thriving. The bad news is places with low
Occupancy and Safe Staffing The pandemic diminished occupancy rates. However, occupancy in nursing homes have been steadily declining since the late 1970s. Back then, occupancy was 93 percent of nursing home beds nationally. Occupancy should be higher based on demographics alone. Mark Parkinson is president and CEO of the American Health Care Association (AHCA). The
The federal government keeps wasting more money on the failing nursing home industry. After giving billions of taxpayer money to for-profit nursing homes that did a terrible job during the pandemic, we are gonna do it again. We are literally throwing taxpayer money to these profitable private companies. DHHS will spend an additional $25.5 billion
Texas is pathetic. Texas nursing homes are the worst. Short-staffed, poorly trained, and mismanaged. Now, they need another bailout from the federal government. Texas is asking for $400 million more in federal coronavirus relief to address a staffing crisis. However, Texas already has $16.7 billion in American Rescue Plan Act money. Texas is now a
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