IOWA CARE INDUSTRY CRISIS........... STARTS AT THE TOP
A report by Terri & John Hale brought to you by
The World Institute of Societies Elders W.I.S.E.
The Hale Group is an Ankeny-based advocacy firm which is owned by Terri & John Hale. They speak out on critical issues affecting the health, safety, and well-being of Iowans.
They were recently asked to grade the 2024 Iowa Legislature and Gov. Kim Reynolds on how well they’ve addressed issues surrounding quality-of-care in nursing homes.
"Without hesitation, we gave an F. They’ve failed to take quality-of-care challenges seriously, and failed to act."
Nothing was done to address the underlying cause of the nursing home care crisis — the inability to attract and retain high quality workers; nothing to bring visibility to how the industry spends $800 million in appropriations of tax dollars each year, nothing to require accountability for those poor performing homes that continue to get millions of dollars annually to provide woefully inadequate care, nothing to set minimum staffing levels in nursing homes (as is done in child care settings), nothing to shift dollars away from nursing homes and toward what Iowans really want — to be served in their own homes and communities, etc.
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