Government report cites nursing home violations.Senior-care leaders voice their response A CONGRESSIONAL REPORT RELEASED IN October cites widespread violations of federal health and safety standards Safety standards are standards designed to ensure the safety of products, activities or processes, etc. They may be advisory or compulsory and are normally laid down by an advisory or regulatory body that may be either voluntary or statutory. at nursing homes in Texas, New York Texas is a hamlet in Oswego County, New York, USA, near the southeastern corner of Lake Ontario. It is officially part of the town of Mexico. Geography Texas lies on Little Salmon Creek, about one-half mile above the mouth of that stream on Lake Ontario, on an east-west , New Jersey, Illinois, and California. A New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of Times article published Oct. 30 synopsized the report, which listed several egregious e·gre·gious adj. Conspicuously bad or offensive. See Synonyms at flagrant. [From Latin cases of negligence and poor care without naming specific facilities. "There is no excuse for bad care, but such care is not the norm," said Charles H. Roadman II Lieutenant General Charles H. Roadman II (born 27 November 1943 in San Antonio, Texas) was the 16th United States Air Force Surgeon General (1996-1999), Headquarters U.S. Air Force, Bolling Air Force Base, Washington D.C. LtGen Roadman's father, MajGen Charles H. , MD, president and CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. of the American Health Care Association The American Health Care Association (AHCA) is non-profit federation of affiliated state health organizations, together representing more than 10,000 non-profit and for-profit assisted living, nursing facility, developmentally-disabled, and subacute care providers that care for (AHCA AHCA Agency for Health Care Administration AHCA American Health Care Association AHCA American Hockey Coaches Association AHCA American Highland Cattle Association AHCA Australian Health Care Agreement AHCA Austin Healey Club of America ), in an official response to the report. "The fact remains that the overwhelming majority of caregivers nationwide provide compassionate and superb care to our vulnerable seniors." Roadman also called for caregivers, government, and consumers to work together to "respond to challenges threatening the quality of care for our nation's frail and elderly." Suzanne Weiss, senior vice president for advocacy at the American Association American Association refers to one of the following professional baseball leagues:
The investigations were carried out by the Democratic staff of the House Committee on Government Reform. Investigators said that names of nursing homes were not released because a change in management could lead to sudden improvement or deterioration in a facility. They cited understaffing and inadequate Medicaid reimbursements as primary causes of substandard substandard, adj below an acceptable level of performance. conditions. "The Times story notes that state Medicaid programs paid skilled nursing facilities skilled nursing facility n. Abbr. SNF An establishment that houses chronically ill, usually elderly patients, and provides long-term nursing care, rehabilitation, and other services. an average of $103 per day per patient, or about $4.29 per hour--less than is paid to a teenage babysitter babysitter A person, often an intelligent family member, who stays by the bedside of a Pt requiring mechanical ventilation, and guards for equipment malfunctions or other problems ," said Roadman, "Clearly, this reimbursement problem must be addressed."
VIEW FROM THE HILL
Bill Title
S.2733 Affordable Housing for Seniors and
Families Act
H.R. 5543 Medicare, Medicaid, and SCHIP
Benefits Improvement and Protection
Act of 2000
H.R. 5042 Return-to-home legislation
H.R. 4614 Nursing Staff Accountability and
Training Improvement Act
H.R. 4635 VA/HUD Appropriations for
fiscal year 2001
Bill Description
S.2733 Reauthorizes and expands programs that
provide supportive
housing for seniors and people with
disabilities. Includes
grants for preservation of affordable
housing and
for conversion of seniors housing to
assisted living,
Sponsor: Sen. Rick Santorum (R-Pa.)
H.R. 5543 Provides additional Balanced Budget
Act relief to health care
providers, including nursing homes
and home-care agencies.
Sponsor: Rep. William Thomas
(R-Calif.)
H.R. 5042 To protect the right of Medicare
beneficiary enrolled in
Medicare+Choice plan to receive
services at skilled nursing
facility where that individual lived
prior to a hospitalization,
Sponsor: Rep. David Hobson (R-Ohio)
H.R. 4614 To require skilled nursing facilities
furnishing services to
Medicare beneficiaries to submit
data to HCFA with respect
to nursing staff levels of facility,
to require posting of staffing
information by facilities and HCFA,
to assess adequacy of
training requirements for certified
nurse aides, and provide for
grants to improve quality of care
furnished in nursing facilities,
Sponsor: Rep. Fortney (Pete) Stark
(D-Calif.)
H.R. 4635 Making appropriations for Departments
of Veterans Affairs
and Housing and Urban Development for
fiscal year
ending 9/1/01. Includes funding for
seniors housing under
Section 202 and other HUD programs,
Sponsor: Rep. James Walsh (R-N.Y.)
Bill Status [*]
S.2733 House amended
S. 1452 (passed by
Senate) to include
several provisions of
this bill; S. 1452
passed by House
H.R. 5543 Provisions attached
to H.R. 2614;
conference report
approved by House
H.R. 5042 Provisions included in
H.R. 5543, Medicare,
Medicaid, and SCHIP
Benefits Improvement
and Protection Act
H.R. 4614 Modified staffing
information posting
requirements
included in H.R. 5543,
Medicare, Medicaid,
& SCHIP Benefits
Improvement and
Protection Act
H.R. 4635 Signed into law:
P.L. 106-377
SOURCE: AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF HOMES AND SERVICES FOR THE AGING
(*.)AS of early December
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