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Speakers:
Robyn Grant, National Consumer Voice for Quality Long-Term Care
Charlene Harrington, Ph.D., RN, School of Nursing, University of California, San Francisco
Richard Mollot, Long Term Care Community Coalition
Topic:
Chronic understaffing has been a serious problem in nursing homes for decades, and has been exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic. The research indicates that inadequate staffing contributes to lower quality of care and poor health outcomes for residents. Yet no federal staffing standard exists, and only one state requires a minimum research-backed standard of 4.1 hours per resident day.
Our speakers will provide an overview of a new report documenting staffing standards in each state and analyzing the contrast to research-based standards recommended by medical and healthcare professionals to ensure quality of care. The session will also discuss the research and data supporting the need for a federal minimum staffing standard.
About the Speaker(s):
Robyn Grant
Robyn Grant is the Director of Public Policy and Advocacy at the National Consumer Voice for Quality Long-Term Care. In this capacity, she is responsible for leading the development and implementation of the Consumer Voice’s public policy agenda and growing and mobilizing the grassroots network to support the organization’s policy work. Prior to assuming this role, Robyn was the Director of Advocacy and Outreach. Before joining the Consumer Voice, she served as the Long Term Care Policy Director at United Senior Action, an Indiana senior advocacy organization, and a consultant with the National Long-Term Care Ombudsman Resource Center. She has a Master’s in Social Work with a specialization in aging. She was the Indiana State Long-Term Care Ombudsman for eight years and president of the National Association of State Long-Term Care Ombudsman Programs for two terms. Robyn has also served on the Consumer Voice Board of Directors.
Dr. Harrington is a gerontologist who has been a professor of sociology and nursing at the University of California San Francisco since 1980. She was elected to the American Academy of Nursing and the National Academies of Medicine. Her research has focused on long term care consumer information systems; home and community-and service programs and policies; nursing home quality, staffing, regulation, ownership and financing; and international nursing home research with colleagues in 6 countries. Dr. Harrington is a member of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Technical Advisory Committee for the Medicare Nursing Home Compare website, serves on editorial boards, has testified before Congress, and has written more than 250 articles and books. During the pandemic, she has conducted research on nursing homes and Covid-19 infections and written commentaries on staffing, transparency, financial issues, and nursing home redesign.
Richard Mollot is the executive director of the Long Term Care Community Coalition (LTCCC), a U.S.-based nonpartisan, nonprofit organization dedicated to improving care for individuals in nursing homes and other residential care settings through legal and policy research, advocacy, and education. Richard has researched and published on a variety of long-term care issues, including: dementia care; nursing home and assisted living standards; the rights of older adults in residential care; abuse, neglect, and crime in nursing homes; nursing home financing; and the imposition and use of penalties for substandard residential care. He is a graduate of Howard University School of Law and a member of the Maryland Bar.
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Long Term Care Discussion Group meetings are intended as forums for candid discussion. Dialogue and comments made during these meetings should be treated as off the record.
For more information about the Long Term Care Discussion Group, and for materials and information relating to previous meetings, visit www.ltcdiscussiongroup.org
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