“Long-term care needs a long-term solution and that’s continued investment,' an advocate said.
Rep. Patty Kim, D-Dauphin and Cumberland counties, joined advocates seeking a bigger investment in long-term care facilities to help them cope with a slew of issues, including staffing and budgetary shortages. June 14, 2023 DaniRae Renno | For PennLive.comPennsylvania’s long-term care facilities face a slew of issues, including staffing and budgetary shortages, that brought frontline caregivers to the state Capitol on Wednesday to ask lawmakers to more funding.
But long-term care providers say that’s not enough to support the projected 66% growth in the commonwealth’s age 65 and older population in the next 15 years. “We need to do a better job of making sure there is a career pathway that is easily taken, and for healthcare workers not to have to make the choice of ‘Do I work or do I go to school?’’ Cutler said.
The COVID-19 crisis saw many long-term care workers walk away from the field, because of concerns about the virus and vaccine mandates. When long-term care facilities don’t have enough staff to meet government-mandated requirements, they have to “buy” more staff from a staffing agency. Kovaleski said that staffing agencies may charge more than double of what the hourly rate is for staff such as registered nurses. This means that long-term care facilities have to shell out more than $40 an hour extra for agency staff.
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