“The pandemic pummeled long-term care – it may not recover quickly, experts warn”

“The pandemic pummeled long-term care – it may not recover quickly, experts warn,” by Rhitu Chatterjee, NPR

 

Quote:

“Nursing homes and other long term care facilities have lost a record number of residents and staff to COVID-19 – representing about a quarter of all COVID deaths in this country. Now, the industry is suffering through a historic staffing shortage, further exacerbated by omicron. Workers have quit in record numbers since the pandemic started. And during the worst of omicron many frontline staff had to stay home because of breakthrough infections. … Researchers are concerned the situation could have a lasting impact on an industry which has struggled with a high rate of turnover and staffing shortages for a long time.”

 

LTC Comment, Stephen A. Moses, President, Center for Long-Term Care Reform:

Yet those same researchers uniformly recommend adding more of the government funding and interference that caused long-term care’s problems in the first place. For better analysis and recommendations, see Medicaid and Long-Term Care.