Look-Up: How Nursing Home Staffing Fluctuates In California

July 18, 2018

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‘Like A Ghost Town’: Erratic Nursing Home Staffing Revealed Through New Records

Daily nursing home payroll records just released by the federal government show the number of nurses and aides dips far below average on some days and consistently plummets on weekends.

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