In Dallas, Texas a local television station has been running background checks on licensed nurses. They have found “thousands of nurses with arrest records.” That much didn’t surprise me – but the arrests include murder, kidnapping and arson. What? Murder? My immediate thought was, don’t employers do background checks? My second thought was, are these
Alabama NewsChannell 19 had a horrendous story of neglect on their website. NewsChannel 19’s Carson Clark reported that a Marshall County Nursing Home is in trouble with state and federal officials after a patient died there. A doctor says the Golden Living Center in Boaz allowed a young woman to scream for help for more than
Vermont Legislative Study Tackles Direct Care Workforce: Study Reveals that Wages, Health Coverage, Training are Keys to Retention Montpelier, VT, March 25, 2008 –An impending health care crisis has not gone unnoticed in the Green Mountain State. The number of Vermonters age 65 and older is expected to double between 2005 and 2030 while the
Amanda Falcone has an article about Connecticut’s attempt to increase staff in nursing homes. A plan to raise the minimum staff-to-resident ratio in nursing homes was described as historic, necessary and long overdue at a press conference Wednesday. The plan would provide $9.5 million in fiscal year 2008-09, which begins on July 1, to increase staff-to-resident
The Courier-Journal in Kentucky has a great article about the necessity to increase staffing at nursing homes, and how the nursing home industry lobbyists are fighting against it so their profits remain large despite the poor care that is guaranteed with low levels of staff. Please read the entire article and the Comments from other
There is an article in an Ohio newspaper that discusses an alleged rape of a male resident at a nursing home. After visiting her fiancé Saturday night at Concord Care and Rehabilitation Center, Linda Monegan knew something was wrong. Unable to talk or see after suffering a stroke, her 55-year-old fiance nodded his head to