"The pandemic exposed long-standing problems in the nursing home industry that stem from chronic understaffing and underspending on care for residents — problems often motivated by owners who place profit-seeking above their residents' welfare." #Union newsday.com/opinion/corona…
"Understaffing, for example, is possible — and profitable — because the U.S. regulatory system charged with ensuring that nursing homes provide safe care has failed." #SafeStaffingSavesLives
"Meanwhile, the House Ways and Means Committee has held hearings on the role of private equity in nursing homes. Such investors have decided that nursing homes can be profit centers, and they buy them with the intent of squeezing out more money." #UnionsForAll
"If successful, minimum staffing standards could go a long way toward improving the quality of care in America's nursing homes."
"If you read nursing home inspection reports sent to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services by state survey workers in the years leading up to the pandemic... it is routine to see documentation that nursing homes lacked the staff to meet the most basic standards."
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