Skilled Nursing News reported a new and surprising advocate for safe, quality care at nursing homes: Investment firms! They are demanding better care because it will better guarantee their investment. Here are the demands they made regarding staffing: Adhere to best practices of safe staffing levels. Ensure adequate staff organization, appropriate working hours and protection
Recruitment and retention is a fancy name for preventing high turnover of caregivers. High turnover negatively affects the quality of care. Extraordinarily high turnover at nursing homes contributes to neglect and abuse. Now, a new report proves that failure to recruit and retain caregivers caused deaths during the pandemic. Between 2017 and 2018, median turnover
Hiding Profits Experts recently met to discuss potential solutions and regulations for the nursing home industry. Experts and consumer advocates want to increase transparency, quality, and accountability in the industry. The journal Health Affairs published the discussion. Profit margin and diversion of funds to related entities were major topics. Corporate chains often siphon funds to
False Staffing Numbers The first domino has fallen in a fraudulent scheme to defraud taxpayers. Nursing homes provided false staffing numbers to meet safe staffing standards as required. In September, investigators searched Mount Lebanon Rehabilitation and Wellness Center and Brighton Rehabilitation and Wellness Center. Now, the former administrator was indicted. She is accused of scheming
Change is Coming Newsday reported that the nursing home industry is changing. Lost occupancy and stigma because of COVID-19 haunt the industry. It is time for a change. Experts agree that the neglect and systemic issues which caused the staggering death toll from COVID-19 need to change. “COVID has amplified what was already a terrible
For-Profits Decrease Care Skilled Nursing News reported on how private equity investors, vulture capitalists, and Wall Street exploit nursing home industry finances. Leveraging real estate and siphoning funds to individual owners cause short-staffing and decrease in quality of care. A study identified a series of negative trends caused by private equity ownership. Cutting corners to
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