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In reply to the discussion: Castro Valley: Janitor saw elderly become weak [View all]truedelphi
(32,324 posts)Actual human beings, from Sacramento, to oversee the shut down.
State-wide, there is a total disconnect between our elected officials, of both parties, when it comes to reality.
When a bank is deemed to be failing, warm bodies are called in to oversee the bank shut down. All that is involved in that is money.
Equally important to have humans from the State Of California come in and oversee an elder care facility, where human lives are at stake.
Back in the late nineties, there was a huge concern from the public regarding the fact that hospital after hospital had fired LVN's, with one year of training, and replaced many of them with Nursing Assistants. Not to dis Nursing Assistants, but there is no way that someone who has had as little as ten weeks of nursing can fulfill the duties of a LV nurse. Especially given that often the course work offered to the nursing assistant to be is watered down by the nursing home administrators in an effort to keep their nursing homes staffed.
So when our elected officials realized there was a crisis - what did they do? Did they examine the situation, talk to nurses and LVN's and others (like doctors) who understood what had happened? If they had done that, they could have quickly written new legislation requiring the hospitals to re-hire the fired LVN's or their counterparts with LVN licenses.
Instead, and rather incredibly, the entire state legislature spent over three months discussing what they should do. Committees were formed, and these were the concerns: What sort of position should be created to deal with "the crisis?" What sort of license should be thought up, with a new clever name? What course work should be involved?
Talk about endlessly sitting in meetings to re-invent the wheel!
And on and on. I personally have lost most faith in my California state legislative critters. From Cal Trans to hospital oversight, this state is losing the battle in having solutions. Even though endless amounts of money are thrown at each and every problem.