NC Health News article explains the typical problems wth nursing homes. Writer Thomas Goldsmith does a good job dissecting the complex organizational structures of the owner and operator corporations and management companies that control and mismanage nursing home facilities. Goldsmith describes this business structure as “byzantine” and wasteful. The owner/operators siphon taxpayer funds to related
McKnight’s reported on new technology saving time for caregivers. Christian Living Communities is a Colorado-based long-term care operator. The facility halved caregivers’ time spent measuring vital signs after integrating new machinery into its electronic health records system. “This is a win-win for the residents and the caregivers. A win for the residents who receive better
Medication theft is a major problem in the nursing home industry. WJHG reported another nurse stealing medications from residents. The missing meds were opiate-based pain medications. Jessie L. Klintworth faces charges related to stealing prescription medications from her job at Florida nursing home. The facility noticed discrepancies in their prescription medication inventory on June 6th. The
Nurses will strike because low pay is creating a staffing shortage crisis. They tell us their employers aren’t offering enough, which keeps new people from coming on board.
Staffing Crisis AARP released a good article on the industry’s labor shortage. Staff turnover was already “astronomically high,” says Ashvin Gandhi, a health economist at UCLA and coauthor of a national study that found the median annual turnover rate for nearly all U.S. nursing homes in 2017 and 2018 was 94 percent. Decades of chronic understaffing has
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