What my GA Medicaid is doing with HHS-CMS money.
Georgia State U gets $1.6 million to improve nursing homes statewide
https://www.ajc.com/news/local-education/georgia-state-gets-million-improve-nursing-homes-statewide/ToT1orPVSlVYBS0ifyylNP/
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.
I guess those low skilled medical staff are necessary. The problem I see is we have so many elderly on Medicaid. That’s just a free handout. Why should the rest of us taxpayers pay for these people when they didn’t bother to earn or save enough money throughout their life times? The church I go to has a lot of poor older people. Most of them have no clue they are living off of others. They just see it as they are entitled.
Medicaid doesn’t pay much most likely, so they have to hire the cheapest people they can.
Unfortunately this scenario is likely also the same for people on Medicare who have worked hard and saved money. They’ll end up with the same low level nursing staff.
I have no idea what the answer is. You can’t make people be responsible – especially not when they get free handouts right and left.