Comments on: Nursing Home Transparency and Improvement Act of 2008

By: Patti

Patti — Wed, 27 Feb 2008 22:15:32 +0000

Yes Ma’am…I’m keeping tabs on the good Senators’ website fir updates. Plus I check the Thompson register daily.

By: Cheryl

Cheryl — Wed, 27 Feb 2008 20:00:35 +0000

Patti will you let us know if this legislation sees the light of day? I’m mad that Congress is more interested in badgering baseball players than confronting issues that are really important to the American people, such as nursing home abuse.

By: Patti

Patti — Wed, 27 Feb 2008 14:12:11 +0000

Dawn there aren’t any bills in your state.

Or mine.

The industry has powerful forces that lobby against mandated ratios; there are pros and cons to this. Many nursing homes in states w/mandated ratios have gone out of business…while the big chains buy them up. actually cut back staffing hours and somehow manage to stay in compliance. They fill the gaps with poor quality workers
and the good aides leave.

CNA work is quickly becoming one of those jobs Americans won’t do…and many advocate filling our openings with immigrants who don’t speak English, who don’t understand our culture, and who refuse to do so…how on earth they manage to pass CNA classes and tests is beyond me. It’s a dangerous situation.

By: Dawn

Dawn — Fri, 22 Feb 2008 14:08:02 +0000

Amen!!!!! This needs to be passed. Nursing homes and their owners NEED to be held accountable.
We also need a mandated patient to staff ratio that is not the 12-13 residents per CNA that currently happens here in NE. I wish Feds would step in versus leaving to the individual states. Does anyone know of any current bill proposed? I read a little about the Nurse’s Association’s involvement in one that has not passed.