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Celebrating the Resurrection in the season of COVID-19 deaths in Nursing Home

April 12, 2020

Nearly 2000 residents of nursing homes or skilled nursing facilities are dead

from the coronavirus epidemic epidemic. According to The New York Times yesterday  “The virus has perhaps been cruelest at nursing homes and other facilities for older people, where a combination of factors — an aging or frail population, chronic understaffing, shortages of protective gear and constant physical contact between workers and residents — has hastened its spread.”

 Advocates blame the nursing homeowners who cut staff. “The residents are sitting ducks,” said Richard Mollot, the executive director of the Long Term Care Community Coalition.

World Wide Deaths

This is not just New York but it estimated that over 2100 nursing homes across the country  This holocaust of elders is not limited to the US. In France 3237 have died Madrid alone 4260 and Italy 8859 deaths prompting a parliamentary inquiry

We need an inquiry but more than that we need a federal response, which there is none and national coverage which is just starting to occur after the most vulnerable on the planet were locked up in buildings where no one  could visit, filled with the people with the highest risk, and staff going from facility to facility as they need three jobs to keep them afloat and spreading the virus then becoming ill themselves 

TRUMP CUT BACKS IN NURSING HOME STAFFING INFECTION CONTROL

This lack of staffing and cut back in infection control federally mandated by the Trump government. Trump cut back regulation upgrades mandated by the Obama administration

The Obama administration effort, finalized in 2016, requiring all long-term care facilities to develop infection control and prevention plans to detect, report and contain communicable diseases.  It also covered telemedicine, so needed now publishing infection control rates weekly in Nursing homes that manage from 1.6 million to 3.8 million infections each year, according to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. A 2017 analysis by Kaiser Health News found that 74 percent of nursing homes have been cited for lapses in infection control — the most frequent type of health violation.

ALCA GCM’S AND ALL AGING PROFESSIONALS PAY ATTENTION TO CARNAGE

Geriatric care managers who very often see patient in a nursing home have to sit up and pay stark attention to this, as do, adult children across the country who have placed their aging parents in what now is a cauldron of coronavirus with no one to track what is going on inside their parent’s last 

IN LA SUGGESTIONS TO TAKE RESIDENTS HOME

In LA where — death 8500 deaths  have been reported in a nursing home an LA County authority suggested family pull older residents out of the nursing homes past haste

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Do Nurses and Social Workers Feel Guilty for Billing Geriatric Care Management ?

July 23, 2019

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Do You Have an Ethical Dilemma ?

Nurses and social workers can have an ethical dilemma running a geriatric care management business and having to bill for profit.Their education and ethics teach them to give their services away- not bill for them.As women they are hard wired to give things away or the human race would not survive. This creates a sharp edged double bind and often causes them to bill less of their geriatric care management time spent with clients.

They often feel slimy asking for money.

 even though they started a business and their agency lifeblood in billing customers so they can make payroll and grow their business. More than that, 75% of these health professionals are women and it is their DNA to give things away or the human race would not survive. But a care management agency is not a baby it is a business and you feed it and nurture it with money.

Do You Have Financial Savvy ?

Geriatric care managers need to understand revenue- how they make money to be financially to make a profit. Revenue does come from billing – but poor billing is very unprofitable billing. Money-losing billing is anything less than 85% of your client’s time. When you bill less than 85% you actually start losing money. Revenue is the high tide of money and is calculated by the number of client’s you serve, new client’s per month, number of clients canceling service. % of time billed (the goal is 85%) and what you charge for travel time.

 

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