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Letter: RI needs Nursing Home Workforce Standards board
Dan McKee’s recent veto of the Nursing Home Workforce Standards Board Bill (WSB). This bill was a commonsense way to tackle the extreme issues that exist in our state’s nursing homes including chronic ...
It's common for a worker to do the job of three or four people because of staffing issues. Nursing home operators must be held accountable for better salaries and working conditions.
A Melville-based elder law firm is hosting a letter-writing campaign on Thursday from 5-7 p.m. to demand full Medicaid funding for nursing homes. Cona Elder Law is calling on community members to join ...
As many as half of nursing home residents are cognitively impaired and may be unable to communicate symptoms such as pain or anxiety to the staff and clinicians caring for them.
Five years post-pandemic, nursing home conditions remain dire amid chronic underfunding and oversight failures. Advocates ...
Their concerns were over the plans for the Bonham Nursing ... homes. "We posted this letter," said Bender. "Through this letter, we came to find out that the staff didn’t know, the residents ...
The authors propose that long-term skin colonization by these organisms serves as a source for spread when people move between nursing homes and ... between residents. For example, the authors ...
A Times investigation found that being banned from operating assisted living homes in California didn’t stop people from ...
The Congressional Budget Office said there's no way for Republicans to meet their budget goals without making cuts to ...
California has known for years that it must pay extra attention to people with disabilities and limited mobility during ...
Hawaii, for example, collected just $31,000 in 2019, the latest year analyzed in the federal report. Iowa, with about twice as many residents ... a person who had nursing home care covered by ...
Gideon Castro was arrested in Utah on a fugitive warrant for suspicion of second-degree murder in the death of 16-year-old Dawn Momohara.