“You want to cut my hours once again,” Christina Chiger, a Certified Nursing Assistant, said. “You want to add more patients. How can I take care of twenty patients properly in an eight-hour time?”
“We have members who have taken two hundred of their seven hundred beds offline because they simply can’t staff them today,” Steve Bahmer, CEO of Leading Age Florida, said.
The homes want to reduce a nursing assistants’ time by a half-hour each day while counting hours already being spent on a patient by specialists but not now counted. A Senate was also scheduled to vote on the legislation on Wednesday, but it was postponed, suggesting that trouble could lie ahead.“This bill does not change the total direct care hours that a resident will receive each day,” Kristen Knapp, a Florida Heath Care Assistant, said.The House bill is now ready for a vote by the full House. The Senate version will be back up next week unless whatever kinks exist aren’t worked out.
The legislation calls the change a modernization of what is considered direct care staffing. The industry said the modernization will allow homes to treat each resident as an individual with attention to their special needs.
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