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Ten nursing homes in Monmouth and Ocean counties were assessed penalties by the state for understaffing. They are: AristaCare at Whiting in Manchester was fined $70,000 in April 2024.
A staffing-minimum law was touted as a fix to hospital understaffing. But workers have filed more than 8,000 complaints, arguing the problem persists. ... Nurses working under 1:3 nurse-to-patient ...
18 months after NY's staffing minimums for nursing homes took effect, fight over penalties or fines for 400-plus understaffed facilities persists. ... Regulators can impose fines of up to $2,000 ...
Many nursing homes in Spain are understaffed because they are for-profit businesses and elderly Spaniards cannot necessarily afford sufficient care; [30] the salary for most workers is less than € 1,000 per month. Even before the crisis, safety violations occurred frequently.
Some had started to run out of beds, along with having shortages of nurses and doctors. By November 2020, with 13 million cases so far, hospitals throughout the country had been overwhelmed with record numbers of COVID-19 patients. Nursing students had to fill in on an emergency basis, and field hospitals were set up to handle the overflow.
Projections suggest an extra 475,000 jobs will be needed in health and an extra 490,000 jobs in social care by the early part of the next decade.
The order further stated that "[n]o resident shall be denied re-admission or admission to the NH [nursing home] solely based on a confirmed or suspected diagnosis of COVID-19". [7] On May 10, 2020, Cuomo rescinded the previous order issued on March 25, which directed nursing homes to admit patients carrying COVID-19. [8]
The number of Michigan nurses who say they know of a patient who has died because of understaffing has nearly doubled in recent years, according to a Michigan Nurses Association survey last year.