The private nursing homes ought to be held accountable for the endless lift-assist calls, and start hiring competent staff, and paying their staff livable wages to do their jobs. Such a waste of resources. I've heard some fire departments have started charging for lift calls. Sounds like a swell idea.
The company I worked for call EMS for any unwitnessed fall, and we weren’t allowed to pick them up after those.
They made fire/EMS get them for liability reasons, and I always thought it was asinine cause those residents are paying $8k/mo for you to handle such liabilities. Pushing that off on fire/EMS is just greedy.
100% correct. They did it so if the resident had a stroke or something, they can say it’s on EMS now cause they were the last ones to touch the person.
It’s entirely done to save their own money in lawsuits and push the work onto someone else.
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u/WittyClerk Jun 22 '25
The private nursing homes ought to be held accountable for the endless lift-assist calls, and start hiring competent staff, and paying their staff livable wages to do their jobs. Such a waste of resources. I've heard some fire departments have started charging for lift calls. Sounds like a swell idea.