Medicaid nursing home staffing law in Illinois

Quilting brings calm

Here is the link.  Your thoughts as to if it will help? No idea why the link isn’t activated 

 Check out this article from The State Journal-Register:

Pritzker signs bill to provide $700 million annually for nursing home staffing

https://www.sj-r.com/story/news/politics/state/2022/05/31/new-illinois-law-provide-700-m-annually-nursing-home-staffing/7457242001/

harshedbuzz

New Illinois law to provide $700M annually for nursing home staffing (sj-r.com)

It's hard to say whether it'll work. It's hard to staff positions across the board even with salary increases. Many working in low level positions could earn as much working easier jobs for the same pay.

HB

Quilting brings calm

HB- I agree with you.   I’m not very knowledgeable about nursing homes in general.  I’ve had a few extended relatives in them, but I was never involved with anything except visiting them. My mom was in a rehab located within a nursing home in 2019.  However the rehab was on the first floor with the really nice rooms and the physical/occupational  therapy area.  The long term residents were not in that area, and I never saw that part of the facility.

harshedbuzz

Quilting brings calm wrote:

 My mom was in a rehab located within a nursing home in 2019.  However the rehab was on the first floor with the really nice rooms and the physical/occupational  therapy area.  The long term residents were not in that area, and I never saw that part of the facility.

Dad was in a 5-Star (Medicare rating) SNF/Rehab after a hospitalization. It was in an area that was mostly rural when it was built 40+ years ago. The building was a sprawling single floor with 2 wings that shared a central nurse's station and dining room with a smaller "family dining room" alcove mostly used for people who were hand-fed or OT for self-feeding. The only difference in decor and staffing between rehab side and LT/SNF care was the activity level. 

Stuck in the middle

Good for Illinois.  NHs lose $100 per month per Medicaid patient nationally, which is why you have to self pay for the first few years in the cheap ones and forever in the nice ones.

Here in Missouri, the majority in the rural-dominated legislature is working to reduce Medicaid funding, despite a State-wide referendum mandating its increase.  

Quilting brings calm

Stuck … isn’t it shocking how people get an idea in their heads  that has no basis in reality?  Certain factions  think people on Medicaid are gaming the  system.  When if fact those factions   have no concept of how broke you have to be to be on a Medicaid as a single person or just how little a community spouse gets to keep to try to live the rest if their life on. Until you have a loved one that  needs Medicaid, a person doesn’t  truely  understand the situation. 

From the facility side - how can they stay in business when every patient they  take means they lose more money? Again, factions think the facilities are taking in government money hand over fist . 

We are getting ready to have a  dementia patient  overload as the baby boomers age.  It will bring a lot of inadequacies in funding to light.  The question is - what are these factions going to do,  it looks like the factions in Missouri value politics over people