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But recent studies suggest that for-profit ownership may have endangered residents by skimping on care, while funneling cash to owners and investors.provides a good example of the way for-profit nursing homes are run and why that business model is is coming under scrutiny in the wake of the pandemic. Their 45 facilities, mostly in Illinois and Indiana, get low ratings from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid , the federal agency that regulates nursing homes.
"One of our floors has 65 people and they expect three or four of us to [provide care for them] on our own," she says."We need at least six or seven people."These conditions make her sad. She thinks of the residents as family. Some of them she's known for years and they've only grown closer during the months when visitors were banned. But the short-staffing is an insurmountable obstacle.
"They're trying to make money," she says."And the main way to make money is to keep labor costs low."
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Especially here in Indiana where their owners just get elected to the General Assembly and pass laws that benefit them to the detriment of their patients...
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When we grow up as a nation and start learning from Japan, which has little to no nursing prisons, this won't even be an issue. An advanced nation and culture takes care of their elderly without old folks homes.
Brings to mind the WSJ piece on hospital lobbyists in NY that pushed Cuomo to allow covid patients back into nursing homes. These administrations are about profit, they aren’t bothered with saving lives. Major reform needed.
Text-Only npr : For-Profit Nursing Homes' Pleas For Government Money Brings Scrutiny
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Let the owner of these death traps cut there salaries to make up for the loss. They’ve been profiting and abusing people for years. Stop the abuse first, then maybe more assistance would be warranted!🤬🤬🤬
Kinda like for-profit prisons that bribe judges to give out harsher sentences to more people more often. Only now it's en vogue. How has either ever been considered anything but profiting off of human misery?
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Enough with the bailouts already!!!
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