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Why would Indiana wade into this debate?
Simple: follow the money. Since Sen. Richard Miller wrote nursing home rules during his reign, and re-demonstrated during the pandemic, that industry owns IN regulators.
Old folks pay the price with sub-standard staffing levels at these facilities. Without a mandate to increase staffing, the operators won’t do a damned thing.
In the end, it’s mostly about Medicaid dollars, which will have to increase.
Hmmm… $10/hour means that the person with this job will make $20K a year (before taxes) working full time AND will most likely qualify for state assistance. I guess it’s just a question of where you want to hide the real cost not paying somebody enough to want the job.
Corporate profits play big into this equation as well. In Indiana the Marion County Health and Hospital Corporation might not be able to suck off enough profits to justify owning so many nursing homes.
If there is no room at the inn, the only option is to do what was done back in the 50’s, bring them home and take care of them at home. Uncle Joe can’t pull trained workers, or any workers for that matter, out of thin air.
Have any of our legislators or Governor ever visited, or had a mother or father in a nursing home? Not a high-end retirement community, but a true “Nursing Home”. Some are very good, and others are mediocre, but many are very bad. Many times, there are very few RNs or Registered Nurses, but there are aides, CNAs (Certified Nursing Assistant) who get paid little and carry the load. RNs who work for large hospital systems can make good money, some upwards of $80,000.00 a year. Nursing home Rn’s salaries are all over the place, from $50,000 to $90,000.00. CNAs, who outnumber RNs are lucky to make $20.00 per hour, roughly, $40,000 per year. CNAs are definitely needed, but they can’t carry the responsibility of RNs.
OWNERS OF NURSING HOMES NEED TO LOWER THEIR OWN EXPECTIONS OF GETTING RICH WHILE OUR OLDEST AND DEAREST OF CITZENS, and HEALTHCARE WORKERS SUFFER!
Perhaps it would be better to start with closing the loophole that is allowing County hospitals to “own” nursing homes on paper so that the two can split the additional revenues. The Indianapolis Start offered a great article regarding the IGT (Intergovernmental Transfer) debacle in April of 2020 but the misdirection of funds continues. Instead of improving care, literally hundreds of millions of dollars have been used for property acquisitions, capital projects and more.
David has the correct answer.
It’s pretty rich of Indiana to complain about his matter given we take the money intended for the care of the elderly and spend it on shiny new hospitals and CEO pay while the old rot to death.
Pro-life state, indeed.
Governor if you would like to sit down an have a discussion with families who loved ones have been killed in a facility due to low staffing, please contact me.! My mother was one of those patients.!
Stop letting Hospitals own the licenses so buildings can be paid higher, then do not turn around and pay employees a working wage, let alone competing wage.! Yet again unless it happens to you or your family you don’t care.! I can bring several families to chat with you, just let us know where and when.!!!
Notice only ones opposing the bill are Nursing Home Owners who line the Republicans pockets w campaign money? What happen to what is best for the patient?
Well, Holcomb, why aren’t there enough nurses to fill the positions if that’s your excuse? How about paying them a decent wage and giving them a doable work load? Better still, get off your ass and go to a regular nursing home for a day and see what really happens. You will be there one day. It’s all about the benjamins as usual. Corporations are people, after all, aren’t they?
Every bit above is true. And most folks would bring family home with them if they didn’t have to quit their jobs to care for them, or if there were support for home care staff or if they had an accessible bedroom and bathroom for said family member.
Make all these places non-profits, boost the staffing and stop the drain to the hospital systems that are paying their administrative leaders (CEOs, VPs, etc)huge salaries and bonuses and instead, boost the pay of the people actually doing the work.