Nursing Homes & Jails. Why Are We Putting A Premium On Caring For Criminals?
Here is great piece that has been circuluating around the web for some time. I don't know who wrote it, but I figured its worth posting as I saw it most recently in Jonathan Chevreau's column in the Finacial Post. Let’s put the seniors in jail, and the criminals in a nursing home. This way the seniors would have access to showers, hobbies, and walks, they’d receive unlimited free prescriptions, dental and medical treatment, wheel chairs etc. and they’d receive money instead of paying it out. They would have constant video monitoring, so they could be helped instantly, if they...
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Health Care Reform Act Allocates Funds For Thorough Background Checks Of Health Care Workers
Six states will be receiving federal grants from the Health Care Reform Act to perform thorough background checks on employees at nursing homes and other facilities that house vulnerable people. While some states already employ background checks of new employees, the new funding is intended to be more exhaustive that the measures currently in place. Employees must pass a check of state and federal criminal records, abuse and neglect registries and multiple databases including the Nurse Aide Registry. The $160 million dollar program will provide funding to the following states: Connecticut Alaska Delaware Florida Missouri Rhode Island In addition...
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More Nursing Home Patients Arrested With Active Warrants In Chicago Nursing Home. Why Are They There In The First Place?
I really applaud Illinois Attorney General Lisa Madigan's efforts to improve the safety of patients in nursing homes throughout the state. Her "Operation Guardian" uses multi-disciplinary teams from various state and local agencies to conduct unannounced sweeps at facilities thought to care for people with outstanding arrest warrants. To date, the operation has conducted 21 unannounced sweeps of Illinois nursing homes that has resulted in the identification of more than 100 nursing home patients with active arrest warrants. In some situations, the people we not arrested due to the fact that they may have suffered physical or mental impairments that...
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Illinois Nursing Home Task Force Holds Public Meeting Today
Today, the Illinois Nursing Home Task Force will hold its second meeting regarding patient safety. The task force will hear testimony from: patients, elder care advocates and senior service providers with the goal of re-evaluating current nursing home policies, improving coordination between state agencies and to consider nursing home alternatives for people with special needs. The task force was recently formed in response to a Chicago Tribune series of articles chronicling the safety problems in Illinois nursing homes. The series detailed how many seniors in nursing homes suffer serious injury or death from an un-regulated group of younger patients...
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