This is todays DFL.
May 2023: Leave the possibility of throwing grandma out on the street very pointedly open.
August, 2023: Pat selves vigorously on the back for not doing it.
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I suppose it’s marginally better than May 2020 – return Grandma from the hospital back to the nursing home to infect all the other patients with her respiratory virus, then blame Trump when seniors die in droves.
So, I know nothing about this, but I do know someone in a senior living residence. A very expensive senior living residence. But not, as far as I know, one that is on the verge of closure.
This seems kinda fishy. Is there some background about this somewhere? Are nursing homes different than senior living residences? Are nursing homes, whatever they are, so dependent on state funding that they will quickly go belly up without it? But they keep building senior living residences around where I live. Why would they do this if the finances are so bad?
Sorry. I acknowledge that this is not exactly on point, but I think there something not quite right about the background.
jdm,
I agree. I have serious doubts about collapsing “nursing homes”, too. My wife and I get marketing materials for both senior and assisted living facilities on an almost daily basis. If there is a crisis, they sure shouldn’t be selling more spaces.
There is a great deal of confusion caused by imprecise language.
Minnesota has a moritorium on nursing home beds. You can only add beds if you can convince the state of the need for them. See Chapter 144A.071
The work-around is to get licensed as an assisted living facility under Chapter 144. You can’t offer the same services as a full-blown ‘nursing home’ but you don’t have to jump through as many hoops to build one.
People confuse them and refer to them either way. Not sure where the funding problem was. I know where my Mom is in memory care – an assisted living facility, not a nursing home.
Point to note: Minnesota also has a moritorium on hospital beds. Remember how the Surge of Covid cases was going to swamp hospitals? Not enough beds? That is intentional. Democrats in the legislature were afraid that if we let people build hospitals, they’d treat people who weren’t really sick just to make money to pay for the hospital. So we’re continuously operating with fewer than what we need in order to avoid the horrible scenario of a hospital somewhere making a buck.
It’s my impression that care facilities must reserve 10% of their beds for Medical Assistance (elderly waiver). I have a parent in a private assisted living facility and I see how expensive it is. We are fortunate to be able to afford it but too many cannot. How will we as an aging society afford to take care of more and more people who need care?
I have a parent in a private assisted living facility and I see how expensive it is.
Another laughable lie. It’s pathological.
Topic: Shooting
rAT: “Yeah, I’m a member of an elite, sporting clay league.”
Topic: Wisconsin
rAT: “Yeah, I have a little skI ShAK I use to train for sHReDdiNG the BiRKiE”
Topic: Stonks
rAT: “Yeah, I just took prOFiTs and liquidated my Position”
Topic: Clot Shot
rAT: “Yeah, my daughter is an ER Nurse!”
Topic: 4th of July
rAT: “Yeah, we’re headed back to HaCK…non stop fun in the Northland!”
Topic: Hackensack is a nasty little town on a shitty, weedy little lake….
rAT: “Not that HaCK…the other one, 10 miles away!”
Topic: Any
rAT: “Yeah, here’s here’s my thoughts!”
Topic: “Here’s a link from where you plagiarized that quote from.”
rAT: “Looks like Hunter stole Ohio!”
It’s pathological.
Three of my daughters have worked in a local nursing home, and they note that the cost structure is basically set by Medicaid and Medicare. Nursing homes statewide have trouble getting workers (wiping the rear ends of senior citizens is not generally an aspirational job, shall we say), and because of that, the state is consistently taking over management of some nursing homes, like the one my daughters worked in.
So the idea that the state would use its thumbscrews to threaten to close nursing homes is not “out there” by any stretch of the imagination. After all, it’s not like the lies of vulnerable people are at stake or ….oh, wait a minute.