“Workers often receive little training”
“Ending TPS for Haitians “will have a devastating impact on the ability of skilled nursing facilities to provide quality care to frail and disabled residents,” warned Tara Gregorio, president of the Massachusetts Senior Care Association, ”
Are they skilled or untrained?
The author seems clueless.
Skilled Nursing Facility is an oxymoron. Nursing Facilities are heavily regulated. One of their big overhead costs is Regulatory Agency harassment. As a sweetener, SNFs are allowed to use the term Skilled so as to impress the family of the elderly who want to dump their problem person there.
Actually most of the staff are unskilled in the meaning that normal people understand. There is supposed to be RNs and LPNs on duty. If they know when the media is coming with cameras,the skilled people will be there.
SNF have always had severely disabled as well as the elderly. But increasingly, SNF are taking in the addiction types on SSI/SSDi/Medicaid.
What my GA Medicaid is doing with HHS-CMS money.
Georgia State U gets $1.6 million to improve nursing homes statewide
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Georgia State University has been awarded $1.6 million for a three-year training and development project to improve the state’s nursing homes, the university announced Tuesday.
The project, called “Building Resources for Delivering Person-Centered Care in Georgia Nursing Homes,” builds on work done by the non-profit Culture Change Network of Georgia to support culture change and person-centered care in long-term care services and support organizations, the university said in a news release.
The work will include a needs-based assessment of Georgia’s 374 nursing homes and interactive competency-based online continuing education training for nursing home staff, residents and informal care partners.
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“Nursing homes do not always have adequate support and resources to improve the education of their staff and to sustain a robust continuous quality improvement cycle,” said Jennifer Craft Morgan, an assistant professor of gerontology who will help lead the study. “Residents of nursing homes can experience loss of autonomy, independence and loneliness when care isn’t tailored to their personal needs and preferences.”
A U.S. Department of Health and Human Services report last year found the state is often slow to investigate nursing home patients who may be at imminent risk of serious injury or death.
The money, going to GSU’s Gerontology Institute, is coming from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services and Georgia State Survey Agency.