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The bonus program included a one-time retention payment that ranged from $2,000 to $15,000 per employee for nurses, nurse managers, home health aides and socialworkers. The majority of these hires were nurses, Westfall indicated. VITAS saw nursinghome admissions rise 9.4% from Q3 2022.
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Summary Transcript Summary In April 2022, the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine (NASEM) issued a report on how the United States delivers, regulates, finances, and measures the quality of nursinghome care. We have Alice Bonner, who’s Chair of the Moving Forward NursingHome Quality Coalition.
By setting, so patients who are living in places like nursinghomes and assistedliving facilities, where it’s easier to visit very quickly patient to patient, as opposed to home-based care for people say in rural areas. I just want to highlight some work.
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Malaz: One day I was in internal medicine residency and I had to take care of a patient who was admitted from a nursinghome with dementia. For me, right now, the worst thing, my nightmare is dying from dementia alone in a nursinghome. People start thinking about putting them in a nursinghome. Diane: Huge.
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