Nursing Homes Are Overly Guided By The Profit Motive Indicates Los Angeles Nursing Home Abuse and Neglect Attorney Steven Peck

Written by Adam Peck Category: Nursing Homes January 23rd, 2013 1 min read

Nursing homes, along with the rest of the long-term care sector, have a disproportionately large impact on the nation’s health care and economy.

The long-term care industry is now the nation’s 10th largest employer, responsible for more than 3.2 million jobs, up from 1.8 million jobs a decade ago. Long-term care facilities directly employ more than 250,000 workers in California — with a district-by-district breakdown of their economic impact available here — and the state has the most nursing facilities in the nation.

Some say that long-term care is overly guided by its profit motive. Altogether, there are about 15,700 nursing homes across the nation, and roughly two-thirds are for-profit. (For comparison’s sake, fewer than one-third of U.S. hospitals are for-profit.)

A 2010 California Watch investigation found that hundreds of California nursing homes cut staff or reduced wages despite a 2004 state law that was intended to boost nursing home wages and increase staffing levels.

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Adam J. Peck, ESQ is a principal with Peck Law Group, APC. In 2008, Mr. Adam Peck received his Juris Doctorate from Whittier Law School where he graduated Cum Laude. His practice is primarily dedicated to representing Elders, Dependent Adults, along with their loved ones and family members, who have suffered horrific personal injuries.