Category: Staffing

Help with Staffing Burnout

Burnout The Biden Administration is providing over $100 million in federal relief funding to address burnout among healthcare workers. The nursing home industry causes burnout with the short-staffing the facilities. Unsafe staffing affects the residents AND the caregivers. The new funds will invest in three different programs. These programs help staff respond to stressful situations,

You Get What You Pay For

Nursing home and assisted living facility workers are being paid at or near the minimum wage. At the same time, fast food workers make more. That is ridiculous. They deserve a living wage. “You can get a job at Walmart stocking shelves for about the same wages as you would get at a nursing home,”

Tasteless TikTok

TikTok McKnight’s reported on a strange and disturbing story.  The Citadel at Winston-Salem suspended nurse Kelly Morris for videos posted on TikTok that allegedly showed her joking about abusing residents. Why would you joke about that? Accordius Health owns and operates the Facility. Accordius Health said in a statement: “Misuse and unprofessional use of social

Staffing Shortages

For-Profit Ownership is the Problem As a long-time nursing home attorney, I can assure you that for-profit chains have lower quality of care. A new study verifies the obvious. Evidentiary findings published in the Journal of Long-Term Care serve as the latest evidence against for-profit management of nursing homes. Dozens of studies prove the negative relationship

Mandatory Vaccinations?

Mandate Vaccine Shots? Data from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services show an average of 79% of residents in nursing homes have gotten their vaccine shots. However, just 56% of caregivers in long-term care facilities have been vaccinated. Only 1 in 5 facilities achieved an industry target of getting 75 percent of their health

Stealing Drugs

Two caregivers of Quillen Manor Independent & Assisted Living in Fountain Inn face criminal charges for stealing drugs from residents. A Greenville County Grand Jury indicted Kelly Michelle Morgan also known as Kelly Morgan-Cardinale, and Bryanna Marie Govin. The charges include stealing prescription medications from nursing home residents. How horrible. Investigators discovered that both women

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