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Nursing Home Worker Issues

Safe Staffing
When there aren’t enough staff hours to provide care, caregivers and residents suffer. Nursing home workers experience higher rates of injuries and higher levels of stress and frustration. This leads to high turnover results and rushed care. Residents do not receive the time and attention they need and deserve.

Long Term Care Transparency and Accountability

A New York Times analysis found that when private equity firms take over nursing homes, the quality of patient care provided falls dramatically and that deliberate corporate restructuring minimizes tax responsibilities and makes it difficult for the Agency on Healthcare Administration (AHCA) to hold nursing homes accountable for the care they provide.

Takeover of Major Nursing Home Chain Could Worsen Care for Thousands of Elderly Florida Residents

In an effort to improve nursing home care in Florida, the state’s largest healthcare workers union today launched a new campaign calling on global buyout giant the Carlyle Group to put care above CEO profits in the $6.3 billion takeover of nursing home chain HCR Manor Care.

Nursing Home Caregivers' Union Ok's Deal

SEIU Healthcare Florida announced that 1,000 Miami-Dade caregivers in 10 nursing homes have ratified union contracts in which workers will get annual 4 percent pay increases and health insurance. 


Need Help at Your Worksite?

If you are interested in joining with your co-workers to fight for increased wages, benefits and a voice at work please contact us: 305-623-3000 or info@seiufhu.org.