Nursing Homes Are Overly Guided By The Profit Motive Indicates Los Angeles Nursing Home Abuse and Neglect Attorney Steven Peck
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Nursing homes, along with the rest of the long-term care sector, have a disproportionately large impact on the nation’s health care and economy.
The long-term care industry is now the nation’s 10th largest employer, responsible for more than 3.2 million jobs, up from 1.8 million jobs a decade ago. Long-term care facilities directly employ more than 250,000 workers in California — with a district-by-district breakdown of their economic impact available here — and the state has the most nursing facilities in the nation.
Some say that long-term care is overly guided by its profit motive. Altogether, there are about 15,700 nursing homes across the nation, and roughly two-thirds are for-profit. (For comparison’s sake, fewer than one-third of U.S. hospitals are for-profit.)
A 2010 California Watch investigation found that hundreds of California nursing homes cut staff or reduced wages despite a 2004 state law that was intended to boost nursing home wages and increase staffing levels.
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