Nursing homes face staffing crunch

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EVERETT — Inside Nightingale Healthcare’s two nursing facilities in Snohomish County, beds and rooms remain empty and patients who need them wait in hospitals or elsewhere.

Those beds are empty at Nightingale, and elsewhere, because of a lack of skilled nursing staff — their “biggest challenge,” said Pete Wolkin, director of operations.

Statewide, about 6,800 of the 19,386 licensed beds in skilled nursing facilities sat empty as of June 2022, according to data analyzed by Carma Matti-Jackson, president and CEO of the Washington Health Care Association. That’s a 35% vacancy rate.

A big problem is money — not enough to recruit and retain qualified staff. State lawmakers are considering several bills to bolster the nursing staff in long-term care facilities, so that more of the licensed beds could be used to care for patients.

https://www.heraldnet.com/news/nursing-homes-face-staffing-crunch/

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1. How about a big problem is

PROFIT MOTIVE?!

Our family is in the middle of this right now!

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2. As a retired nurse I can assure you that nursing homes generally have the highest ratio

Of nurses to patients. Article should mention what the staff are getting paid.
Why don’t they?
It’s like saying there is an urgent shortage on help that will work their asses off for practically
Nothing.