In some cases, it’s a disgrace:
The staff in nursing homes are very poorly paid, therefore you can’t attract and retain high quality people – for example: a nurse my hospital fired for falsifying documentation and coming to work with alcohol on her breath now works at the local SNF. Those corporations are going to hire the minimum amount of staff they can get away with.
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Why would one think this was a nursing home phenomenon? This applies to all businesses, and includes doctors offices. Ask anybody in private practice how much money has been embezzled, how many of the employees have hot-check convictions, and how many of the employees have garnished wages for child-support or delinquent student loans. Employee labor costs are the highest expenses for the typical medical practice. It is no wonder high quality employees are not working in doctors offices: they are not affordable.
Quick, let’s get them some tort reform!
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