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- Howard Fischer
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For Star subscribers: Calling it a way to prevent abuse, an Arizona lawmaker is pushing to make sure some nursing homes residents can install cameras in their private rooms.
- Corey Jones Public Service Journalism Team
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“When you have to sit on that patient because there isn’t a bed available where they can actually be cared for, it’s terrifying,” a Bryan Medical Center official said.
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- By Jon Harris News Business Reporter
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Orchard Park resident Connor Kolb has been trying to get his grandparents in the same Western New York nursing home for more than six months. But that has proven difficult, if not nearly impossible, amid severe staffing issues at the region's nursing homes.
Most hospitals are now full which has resulted in elective surgeries being postponed. Why are they full? Obviously because of Covid, but there is also another reason. Nursing homes don’t have enough staff and therefore can’t admit patients from the hospitals. Why don’t nursing homes have enough staff? This is because New York State does not reimburse nursing homes for what it costs to care for Medicaid patients.
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- By Jon Harris News Business Reporter
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There are other factors pressuring local hospitals, from employee shortages to difficulties discharging patients who need to be in long-term care facilities that don't have room.
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- By Jon Harris News Business Reporter
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Health care employment across the country is down by 524,000 since February 2020, with nursing and residential care facilities making up about 80% of the loss, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.
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- By Matt Glynn and Jon Harris News Business Reporters
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CWA and Catholic Health are negotiating six contracts covering 2,500 workers at three facilities, but under a previous agreement, a strike could only happen at Mercy.
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- By Matt Glynn and Tom Precious News Staff Reporters
Hundreds of employees were put on leave or lost their jobs for not being in compliance with the vaccine mandate.
- By Judy Clinco Special to the Arizona Daily Star
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OPINION: "In a nutshell: Direct care workers are compassionate and caring. They answer the call to help others," writes Tucson expert Judy Clinco.
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