Long-term care facilities rely on around-the-clock staffing to provide medical attention, daily assistance and supervision for residents.
But like many healthcare settings, nursing homes say they’re facing workforce challenges.
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One nursing home in Erie, Nightingale Nursing and Rehab Center, is fully staffed; however, their nursing director, Barry Ebright, said they have faced challenges in the past.
“You have people ringing their call bell needing assistance and it just doesn’t come; it takes too long, right? You have people who need something as simple as just water and without the proper staff, it takes too long for them to get it,” Ebright said…