Not just neglect, my dad was in a nursing home. Rushed to ER 3 times and the lass time he died from septic shock, found out years later was incorrect positioning of foley catheter.
That worries me about my brother potentially needing full time care in the relatively near future. Nearly impossible to find a good place unless you know a resident.
For-profit nursing facilities pay their high-level administrators more, and so the people actually providing the care are paid less than those working at nonprofit places,” he said. “So staff at for-profit facilities are underpaid and need to take care of more residents, which leads to low morale for staff, and it’s the residents who suffer.”
Very true.
CNA turnover is absolutely ridiculous, even quality LPNs are difficult to staff. Good luck finding RNs to work there unless it is a management position.
Of course, they are. That is what's wrong with all for-profit social service programs such as for-profit prisons, healthcare, and k-12 education. The quality of the outcome does not increase profits so the effort is on meeting some arbitrary performance target and keeping costs as low as possible. And where is the oversight and accountability to assure compliance? The market is appropriate for commodities, etc., but not for the welfare of human beings.