Rana Law Group Newsletter

• Minimum Staffing Requirements for Nursing Homes
• State Minimum Wage Requirements
• Just for Fun: The Great American Eclipse

Nursing home abuse cases are a specialized practice area and really heartbreaking to the families that experience harm.  Victims can be physically and emotionally harmed by either intentional malicious acts or, more often, simple neglect.  Either way, it is unacceptable for any healthcare facility to treat patients with anything less than the highest degree of care.  Abuse usually happens when the corporations running the facilities cut corners to increase profits.  This comes in the form of relaxed hiring requirements, low staffing levels and lack of proper training and equipment.  What the public may not realize is that this not only harms patients but also harms the staff that are trying their best to provide a high level of care.  After all, very few people in this field intend to harm patients, especially given the (often) low pay associated with a stressful and physically demanding job.  Our firm handles many workers’ compensation claims for employees at these facilities.  The range of injuries includes back strains from lifting patients alone or without proper equipment, to using broken equipment or lack of proper staffing levels.  When nursing homes companies choose to cut corners and put profits over people, everyone is at risk, including patients and staff.

This is why the new federal guidelines for minimum staffing levels are so critical.  Unions and patient advocates have worked tirelessly to push these reforms into law.  Several of the new mandates include 3.48 hours/resident per day of total staffing including RNs and nurse aids, an RN onsite 24/7 and 80% of Medicaid payments for home care now must go directly to salaries for workers.  The requirements will be introduced in phases and allow more time for rural communities to meet staffing levels.  We welcome these changes and hope the new mandates reduce the abuse and neglect the patients face while simultaneously reducing the number of employee injuries.  If that happens, then it means everyone is safer.

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