Care Can’t Wait: Ensuring Public Dollars Deliver for Nursing Home Residents
The following report details how despite the fact that the Illinois nursing home industry has received an additional $670 millions per year since 2022 as part of Medicaid rate reform, conditions at nursing homes have been worsening in the past five years.
- Staffing levels have not recovered, leaving both workers and residents in increasingly dire conditions.
- Infection control remains inadequate in many facilities, with reports of continued shortages in basic protective equipment and sanitation supplies.
- Reports indicate that some nursing homes have cut corners even further, prioritizing cost-cutting measures over patient safety.
- The trauma and burnout among long-term care staff remain high, leading to even greater turnover and instability in facilities that were already struggling before the pandemic.
The report details deaths of residents at nursing homes where staffing was below state-mandated levels.
Read the new report – Care Can’t Wait: Ensuring Public Dollars Deliver for Nursing Home Residents – below.