Increasing Injuries, Declining Care Post-Bankruptcy at Nursing Homes

A recent article from Skilled Nursing News highlights the negative outcomes for residents when nursing homes go through bankruptcy. This has caused problems, and the decline of the care has led to increased pressure injuries in vulnerable adults.

Bankruptcy has triggered staff turnover in nursing homes, causing facilities to have short-term workers fill the gap to work with patients who are less familiar with them. Although the administration and management of these facilities may remain, the problems show in the patients: hospitalization percentages have risen, use of physician restraint has increased, and preventable pressure ulcers have increased.

Researchers fear that wage cuts and job scarcity play a role and force regulation to watch bankruptcy more closely. The research raises concerns about how bankruptcy and financial instability is affecting the nursing home industry directly. These effects impact vulnerable adults, and there needs to be ways to fix these issues so that there are no direct effects on the health of vulnerable adults.