Virtually ALL abuse and  neglect, and suffering, as well many painful, needless deaths, occur simply because nursing homes don’t provide enough  cnas to care for the residents.  

It’s that simple.

Nursing homes across the United States are understaffed, leaving vulnerable residents in conditions that amount to neglect and abuse. Residents are kept bedbound,  forced to soil themselves rather than be helped to use a toilet, have limited access to water, can go months without oral care.   And much much worse. 

This isn't because cnas are lazy, or staff is uncaring.  This occurs  because nursing homes PURPOSELY UNDERSTAFF to MAXIMIZE REVENUE.  Imagine dropping your child off at daycare, only to find they were kept in a crib for your entire workday or told “just go in your pants” when they asked for help in the bathroom, merely because the daycare company would inly pay for one teacher in a room of 20 children.  CNAs routinely have 15, 18, 30, some have reported they’ve been charged with caring for up to 65 residents or a whole building.  This is unacceptable. 
We are led to believe that nursing homes are understaffed because nursing homes run on “slim margins” of reimbursement and can’t afford to hire more, or because they can’t find staff to hire.  This is not true.   
The nursing home industry has plenty of money to pay analytic teams to come up with more efficient ways to financially gouge elders, to pay lobbyists and lawyers to shmooze legislators to make law favorable to their coffers, to fill their own pockets.  Just not enough to pay for enough Cnas to care for residents personal needs,  housekeepers to keep the facility clean, or maintenance crew to fix broken things.  Investigators have found that many health care companies take up to 95% (sometimes more) of their net revenue and give it to shareholders and investors instead of spending it for resident and building needs.   This is dishonest, stealing from the elders.  

Companies cut costs by minimizing staffing and resources, falsely marketing their facilities as homes based on expertise and loving care, when in reality, they provide neither. Our elderly deserve the freedom to move, be clean , have the joy of connection, and the respect of attentive care, not a life confined to a mattress and filth, solely for a corporate dollar.   
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We demand strict oversight and enforcement in U.S. nursing homes to start with  FEDERAL LAW requiring DIRECT 1 CNA to 6 RESIDENTS around the clock.  This change is essential to hold these institutions accountable and transform the quality of care for our aging population. Let's stand together to protect the elderly from this inhumane treatment.
❗️Sign this petition to advocate to hold nursing homes responsible for the health, well-being and dignity of their residents. ❗️REQUIRE ONE CNA to 6 RESIDENTS, at all times, direct ratio, not hours of care, no duties except hands on, trained, professional resident care.  

Thank you from the bottom of my heart for caring about the elders.  ❤️