Nursing homes are struggling to meet vaccination mandates for workers despite the likelihood of federal sanctions. In Pennsylvania, about 28% of the state’s 688 skilled care nursing facilities had met an 80% threshold for staff vaccination rates as of Oct. 3, according to the state Department of Health. Even fewer
Through the Heart s Desire program, ProMedica Senior Care resident Tom Pindelski got to make a surprise visit to his son s retirement party from the Downers Grove Fire Department.
LOWER MERION On Tuesday, May 25, thousands of nursing home workers at 41 facilities across Pennsylvania, including those in Wynnewood, rallied to demand better staffing and other improvements to the nursing home industry that will save lives.
âShort staffing not only hurts us, it hurts the people weâre responsible for and care for our residents deserve better,â said Tisheia Frazier, a CNA at Saunders House in Wynnewood. âAnd offering us hotdogs and candy is not a way to improve working conditions, it s an insult. Pay us what we are worth!â
For decades, caregivers have sounded the alarm on chronic and dangerous understaffing, poor recruitment and retention of workers, and unacceptable conditions which created a system that could not withstand a global pandemic. PA ranks as one of the worst states for COVID nursing home deaths, having lost over 13,000 residents since the pandemic began.
MetroHealth, ProMedica will develop a skilled nursing and rehab center in Old Brooklyn
MetroHealth
ProMedica, a Toledo-based nonprofit health care organization, and MetroHealth have agreed to develop a multimillion-dollar skilled nursing and rehabilitation center at MetroHealth s Old Brooklyn campus.
The MetroHealth System and ProMedica, a Toledo-based nonprofit health care organization, are teaming up to develop what they describe as a multimillion-dollar skilled nursing and rehabilitation center on MetroHealth s Old Brooklyn campus.
The new facility is expected to open in late 2021 and will be called ProMedica Skilled Nursing and Rehabilitation at MetroHealth, the organizations said in a news release on Thursday afternoon, Feb. 25. The joint efforts of MetroHealth and ProMedica in the new facility will improve health care connectivity and access to resources that support healthy aging in the Cleveland area, the release stated.