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MEDICAL: "Families push staffing rules for nursing homes"

By Michael Stevens

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Interesting piece in Courier Journal raising concerns over minimum staffing at Kentucky nursing homes.  I always thought it interesting (if not misleading) that hospitals and nursing homes had all wearing whites (RN's, CNA, LPN's, and housekeeping and maintenance and....) so you never know the who's a "real" nurse since they no longer wear those caps.

However, a concern over patient care by the numbers is raised.

Families push staffing rules for nursing homes COURIER JOURNAL
Lois Pemble said she once found her mother alone, sprawled on the floor of her nursing home room, where she'd fallen.

Full post as published by Kentucky Law Blog on January 26, 2008 (boomark / email).

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