GAO Faults State Nursing Home Inspections
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Nursing Homes
I've worked in nursing homes for the past 14yrs, and the patient to direct care giver ratio or just unrealistic. There are more people pushing paper work then care givers. There are certain people that think the ratio is adequate , they should have to work a day in the care givers shoes, and see if they can perform the duties expected.
nursing homes
Having worked in nursing homes, I can only agree to the deplorable care of the patients. Myself, I would rather die than be sent to a nursing hole. Yes, I do mean hole. Once I saw two nursing assistants drop a woman of about 70 into her bed from a distance of about three feet above the bed. I had to quit this type of work because of the abuses, and, more importantly, the blind eyes in Administration.
It is also called, business as usual.
So, What else is new? The GAO is part of the bureaucracy which feeds at the public trough. I suspect that most of them are pushing paper too.
It is no different in any so-called Civil Service Organization. I have worked in several of them most of my adult life. All seem to have bloated budgets and are loaded with drones who just go through the motions.
How long have we had Nursing Homes?
How long have we had the GAO inspecting them?.
Does anyone expect that anything is going to change? I sure don't
nursing homes
I've worked in the field for almost 25 years, it doesn't need to be this way, I see CNA's working very hard and doing the right things. The regulations are massive and if you truly wanted all the regulations complied with you would need 1 staff person for every 5 residents which the government nor anyone else seems to want to pay for. What we need is a working collobarative with the government and health care to make the changes necessary to give every elder the quality of care and life they deserve. We need to spend less time on paper compliance and more time with the resident.
The other big problem probably one of the main reasons we have these problems, you can't make healthcare a for-profit business, owners want the return, the return should go back into the nursing home to make improvements, but the for profit world wants a bigger bottom line.
The less for profits in this industry the better the care will ultimately be!!!
nursing-home abuse
Abuse exists. Having spent 3-4 hours daily for 10 years with my 80-year old sister, pralyzed from the neck down, and finding her with broken upper-arm bones (two breaks within 6 months and all three within one year)--in a Washington, Ill., nursing home that has many lwsuits pending and should be shut down, and another, supposedly the best in the west, equally as negligent.
