Not long after John Interlandi began visiting his brother Joe, known as “Bubba,” in a Connecticut nursing home, he noticed that care was lacking.
“I visited Bubba on three occasions within the first week,” he wrote to legislators. “On each occasion, I found his pants and/or bed linen soiled in urine and the temperature on his floor was well over 80 degrees.
The measure would boost the mandatory minimum staffing hours time that a nurse or certified nursing assistant spends directly with a resident from 3 to 4.1 per person each day, a level that nursing home representatives said would be difficult to meet.