FORUM: Nursing Home Residents: Short-changed by Staff Shortages
November 3, 1999
The purpose of this forum is to discuss the impact of staffing on the quality of care and to explore innovative solutions that facilities are implementing to address this problem.
Date: November 3, 1999
Time: 10:00 am
Room: 106 Dirksen
- Senator Chuck Grassley, Chairman, Iowa
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- Charlene Harrington, Ph.D., R.N., Professor, Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences, University of California, San Francisco, California.
- Elaine Daigle, Mother of Nusing Home Resident, Yantic Connecticut.
- Narcissus Jackson, Certified Nurse Aide, Baltimore, Maryland.
- Debbie Tanner-Byrd, Certified Nurse Aide, Portsmouth, Ohio
- Becky Kurtz, Long-Term Care Ombudsman, Atlanta, Georgia
- Mary Ann Kehoe, Administrator, Good Shepherd Home, Seymour, Wisconsin.
- Mary Jo Westphal, Certified Nurse Aide, Good Shepherd Home, Seymour, Wisconsin. (no prepared statement provided)
- Leslie Williams, Nursing Home Administrator, NHC Healthcare of Merritt Island, Merritt Island, Florida
- Judith Ryan, Chief Executive Officer, The Evangelical Lutheran Good Samaritan Society, Sioux Falls, South Dakota.
- Helene Fredeking, Senior Advisor, Division of Outcomes and Improvement, Center for Medicaid and State Operations, Health Care Financing Administration, Baltimore, Maryland
Forum Publications
- Committee on Aging Print: 106-18