1.5 million a year profit per facility in LTC

[Oldmahubbard]

An RN nurse manager broke down and started crying in front of me, a consultant. They don't have basic supplies on a regular basis. Orange juice, nutritional supplements. Various other things. I have known nurses to bring soap from home into some facilities.

There have been a few minor repercussions here and there. 50k fines. It isn't a big deal in light of the profits.

A local administrator was charged with a felony a couple of years ago for neglect.

I guess we can urinate in the ocean and expect it to turn yellow.

Gross.

[osceteacher]

This post seems to go all over the place.

[JBMmom, MSN, NP]

The years I spent in long-term care were wonderful in terms of the coworkers I had and the residents I cared for. They were awful for painting my perception of corporate greed and heartlessness. The facility was chronically understaffed and regularly lacking in supplies. Upper management within the facility and at the corporate level were well aware of these issues, but as long as the facility passed the state exam annually, they didn't care. It's a shame that our most vulnerable people in society, those that cannot care for themselves and require the care provided in long-term facilities, are subject to poor living conditions so some corporate owners can get rich off of them.

[kbrn2002, ADN, RN]

No all LTC facilities can be painted with that brush. They are not all the cesspool from hell that many make them out to be. I happen to work for a very good one. If we run out of something we need before the order comes in the supply clerk goes and buys it, using a company credit card by the way. The same with the kitchen if they run out of something. Are we short staffed? Of course we are, just about every LTC I've heard of has staffing issues. Part of that can be attributed to difficulty covering shifts at short notice due to a call off. Unlike a hospital with multiple floors of staff we have what we have in the building. There's nobody we can pull staff from to fill an unexpected hole so sadly mandated OT is pretty common. But we always manage to get enough staff to take care of our residents, even if it comes down to management pitching in.