Audit Shows PA Nursing Homes Understaffed, Problem Projected to Get Worse – WESA

Listen to story - Quotes Ellen Flaherty, assistant professor of medicine, community and family medicine, and of The Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice, in an article about how an audit of Pennsylvania nursing homes warns that staffing levels at these facilities are insufficient and on track to get worse. "Nursing home direct care workers are currently, and have been historically, underpaid. And that is part, I think, of the reason why people choose to work in other environments and other places," says Flaherty.