Unsafe staffing levels and turnover are major problems for the 1.3 million people who live in nursing homes. The Biden administration’s federal rule setting minimum safe standards for staffing would save 13,000 lives a year. The rules will be phased in over the next years. They require a registered nurse to be on site 24 hours
Trump fired a dozen inspectors general who monitored departments for waste, fraud, and abuse, ignoring the law that requires him to give Congress 30 days’ notice and provide good cause for the terminations and specific reasons. Most were Trump’s own appointees from his first term, put in when he purged the inspectors general more gradually
A recent study led by Professor Yong Suk Lee at the University of Notre Dame highlights the transformative potential of robotics/AI in nursing homes. The findings, based on facilities in Japan, show that integrating robots not only improves patient outcomes but also boosts employee retention, an issue the U.S. elder-care industry desperately needs to address.
The North Dakota Monitor reported the critical need for safe staffing levels. The Biden administration’s newly implemented staffing standards for nursing homes mark a long-overdue effort to address systemic neglect in the industry. These standards require at least 0.55 hours (33 minutes) of RN care per resident per day and 2.45 hours (2 hours and
A recent study conducted by Matthew P. Maughan examined more than 9,000 US nursing homes across 610 different chains. Maughan told McKnight’s Long-Term Care News: “Large chains benefit in terms of administrative efficiency, but staffing is one of those inputs to the process that does not ‘scale’ well; larger employers can get by on less
Monica Blackwell has been accused of taking prescription painkillers and medication for anxiety and panic disorders from 13 nursing home patients. Blackwell was an agency nurse who admitted to investigators that she stole the medications for her own use, according to the criminal complaint. Narcotics agent, Brian Kosoglow, said that the detailed accounts of patients
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