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Thursday, May 30, 2019
Five NorCo Nursing Homes, Including Gracedale, Below State Staffing Standard
Staffing shortages lead to resident mishaps. This should be remedied at Gracedale simply because it is the right thing to do. It should be added that failure to comply with state standards would be considered negligence per se in the event of litigation over a resident mishap.
Here's where Gracedale stacks up on staffing, according to Medicare.
Gracedale is below both the state and national average.
Late last year, Pa. Auditor General Eugene DePasquale announced plans to audit the state's nursing homes over staffing shortages. He said then adequate staffing levels directly impact the quality of care provided to 90,000 Pennsylvanians — more than the population of Lancaster and Johnstown combined — who live in nursing homes.
Gracedale officials are doing their best to hire more people. But let's be real. In a recovering economy, the pool of people willing to clean bedpans tends to shrink.
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Thought McClueless was going to take care of the elderly. More BS from him or is it Bow Tie Man. Can't get people to work when you treat them like SH--.
ReplyDeleteCannot speak for disgracedale, but the others you mention are corporate conglomerates whose only focus is $$$ for the corporate team. Its called deliberate understaffing to bolster profit. PA staffing laws for nursing homes are a bigger mess than the homes themselves. Legislature needs to move on this.
ReplyDeleteNational Nurses United is doing a fine job to combat this problem, with their recent legislative win in California.
Wondering if Weston Nursing & Rehab shit canned Dr. Van Wirt yet, like HCR Manorscare finally did, after they were run into the ground and taken over in a receivership.
ReplyDeleteTwo OT comments from Mezzacraycray are gone
ReplyDelete”Thought McClueless was going to take care of the elderly. More BS from him or is it Bow Tie Man. Can't get people to work when you treat them like SH-”
ReplyDeleteThis problem existed long before McClure was elected. Unlike his immediate predecessor, he is doing all he can to increase the nursing care. Perhaps I should make that the topic of another story.
Gracedale haters gotta hate. We can thank the Stoffa/Angle Admisntration for that one. As well as his clueless Director of HS Marcus.
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