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More than 72,000 skilled nursing home residents in Pennsylvania would see an increase in the hours of direct care they receive daily under proposed regulation changes, the first updates in more than 20 years.
Department of Health Acting Secretary Alison Beam announced Wednesday that the changes would increase the minimum number of direct care hours for residents from 2.7 to 4.1 hours per day, which is closer aligned with Medicare recommendations.
“Revising nursing home regulations is one piece of the administration’s ongoing effort to improve care for residents and working conditions for staff in nursing homes,” Beam said during a news conference in Harrisburg.
Bucks County is putting out the word: it needs more nurses to care for residents of Neshaminy Manor, the county s 360-bed nursing home in Doylestown Township.
A job fair to promote hiring of registered nurses, licensed practical nurses and certified nursing assistants will take place Wednesday from 10 a.m. to noon and again from 3 to 5 p.m. at Neshaminy Manor, 1660 Easton Road. There s a nursing shortage. We are suffering from that right now in our nursing home, said Margie McKevitt, county chief operating officer during the county commissioners meeting Wednesday. If you know any RNs, LPNs or CNAs, please, please tell them to come to our job fair.We would greatly appreciate it.
Republican lawmakers must do more to encourage conservative voters in the state to get vaccines.
That was the charge on Thursday from members of the Committee to Protect Medicare, a national political action group formed in 2016 by health care workers. On every shift, I meet patients who think the pandemic is a hoax, said Dr. Max Cooper, an emergency room physician and co-leader of the Committee to Protect Medicare Pennsylvania. Patients say that the vaccine could give them COVID-19, and they say that they got this information from people who they trust, said Cooper.
Pennsylvania is already showing signs of slowing demand for the COVID vaccine.