State of Texas: New nursing home staffing rules face pushback 

All you have to do is look at the salaries of the CEOs and the CFOs of these nursing homes to see that they certainly can afford to do better on staffing but they choose to put that in their pocket and live large instead ……at the expense of our elderly. Not only are elderly because I used to be a staff member in a nursing home and the stress was unbelievable because you weren’t able to give the care you wanted to. I also don’t agree that the nurses aren’t being paid enough because they are the highest paying nurses in the country because nobody wants to work there but you end up getting the dregs of the Earth for your CNA‘s and unskilled nurses aids because THEY are not paid enough. This is where you end up with patience being abused because those CNA‘s are the hardest working and they have to do the most physically taxing jobs for the patient. The RN just documents all day, the LVN just passes out meds all day, the CNA is actually the one doing hands-on patient care. They certainly need a pay rise. What the RNs and the LVN’s need are more RNs and LPNs!! They need more staff not more money

That is a really great job on your informative and interesting investigative news story about the new unprecedented rule that has been finalized requiring minimum staffing standards in nursing homes nationwide.

Thank you Congressman Doggett.

If you give a Aid 14 patience to care for with heavey lifting .how is that Aid supose to get 2 hrs in per patient.

Unbelievable that a very basic amount of care is a standard that is so hard to meet. When they get new residents they fluff it up thos is a compassionate caring place and thry cant do that tiny bit of care? Imagine then how your relatives are being treated right now.

This after the nurse’s where given seniors Covid-19’s. Calling it allergies