Opinion: California’s Nursing Home Staffing, Wages Up
California Watch's story on nursing home staffing and wages "selectively ignored aggregate data and singled out a small number of facilities where staffing fluctuated and where wages may have legitimately declined and added the numbers together to reach an incorrect and misleading conclusion, ignoring the positive trends taking place in the profession," Jim Gomez, CEO/president of the California Association of Health Facilities, writes in a Contra Costa Times opinion piece. According to Gomez, overall nursing home staffing and wages, salaries and benefits increased between 2004 and 2008 and quality of care continues to improve.
- "Article on California's Nursing Homes Is Misleading" (Gomez, Contra Costa Times, 4/24).