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
10WBNS reported another tragic and preventable death at a nursing home. Luana Mowery’s husband, Paul, was living at the Capri Gardens in Lewis Center – a rehab and nursing center. Mowery was a long-term care patient at the facility who depended on oxygen therapy. On the morning of May 20, 2021, Mowery was found blue
Staffing Crisis AARP published a fantastic report on how the labor shortage is affecting staffing levels in nursing homes. “Workers say their exits are driven by dangerous working conditions, poor pay and benefits, limited opportunities for advancement, burnout and the respect deficit for their profession.” Solutions? Many experts see immigration as the best way to
Price-gouging? The Travel Nursing Agency Transparency Study Act would require the Government Accountability Office to investigate staffing agencies. The GAO will study potential price gouging and “taking of excessive profits” as alleged by the nursing home industry. The industry pressured legislators to investigate agencies for price-gouging and for “poaching” staff. The GAO will attempt to
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