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riversedge's JournalVice President Harris announces final rules mandating minimum standards for nursing home staffing
Source: wbay.com
By ADRIANA GOMEZ LICON Apr. 22, 2024 at 12:51 PM CDT|Updated: 7 hours ago
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Vice President Kamala Harris announced the final rules on Monday before a trip to La Crosse, Wisconsin, where she will talk to nursing home care employees. In the battleground state, Harris also will hold a campaign event focused on abortion rights.
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The new rules implement a minimum number of hours that staff members spend with residents. They also require a registered nurse to be available around the clock at the facilities, which are home to about 1.2 million people. The rules dictate that 80% of Medicaid payments for home care providers go to workers’ wages....................
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The new rules call for staffing equivalent to 3.48 hours per resident per day, just over half an hour of it coming from registered nurses. The government said that means a facility with 100 residents would need two or three registered nurses and 10 or 11 nurse aides as well as two additional nurse staff per shift to meet the new standards.
The average U.S. nursing home already has overall caregiver staffing of about 3.6 hours per resident per day, including RN staffing just above the half-hour mark, but the government said a majority of the country’s roughly 15,000 nursing homes would have to add staff under the new regulation.........................
The government will allow the rules to be introduced in phases with longer timeframes for nursing homes in rural communities and temporary exemptions for places with workforce shortages...........................
Read more: https://www.wbay.com/2024/04/22/watch-live-vice-president-harris-announces-final-rules-mandating-minimum-standards-nursing-home-staffing/
Our VP has a difficult job --in that nursing homes are hard to staff--and hard to keep staff.
https://x.com/moonbreeze2/status/1782570907036221844
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The Biden Administration sets the first mandatory minimum staffing rules for nursing homes after the COVID-19 pandemic exposed a grim reality
Trump wanted to ban TicTok when Pres; Now he claims "Just so everyone knows...Biden is responsible for banning TikTok
Donald Trump spent much of the last year of his presidency trying to ban TikTok.
Here’s what he said on July 31, 2020: "As far as TikTok is concerned, we're banning them from the United States."
Trump today: “Just so everyone knows…Biden is responsible for banning TikTok.”
Why did Trump flip-flopped on TikTok? Trump recently met with Jeff Yass, a megadonor with a $33 billion stake in TikTok.
A few days later, Trump announced he changed his mind and he’s now against a TikTok ban. Yass is also the biggest institutional shareholder of the shell company that recently merged with Trump’s social media company.
Donald Trump is the most corrupt man ever to occupy the White House
https://twitter.com/RpsAgainstTrump/status/1782529802571808936
https://twitter.com/RedHibiscus23/status/1782538109017530641
NEVER forget these warriors who sacrificed and they are still sacrificing for Ukraine and for their freedom! RiP 🕯️ H
Too many candles. Very sad singing which I do not understand the words.
NEVER forget these warriors who sacrificed and they are still sacrificing for Ukraine and for their freedom!
RiP 🕯️ Heroes forever ❤️🇺🇦
https://twitter.com/ukrainiansquad/status/1782462792118800863
List of businesses that are leaving New York because of Trump's criminal woes:
List of businesses that are leaving New York because of Trump's criminal woes:
https://twitter.com/Mollyploofkins/status/1782476671016124840
:donkey: BREAKING: Judge Merchan drops a bombshell on Donald Trump in his criminal hush money trial, reveals a slew
@OccupyDemocrats
BREAKING: Judge Merchan drops a bombshell on Donald Trump in his criminal hush money trial, reveals a slew of damaging information that prosecutors can mention.
This is it the worst case scenario for Trump...
If Trump takes the stand, the judge has ruled that prosecutors can mention six crucial court determinations from four different proceedings.
1. The $354.9 million fraud case he lost in New York in February for inflating his net worth.
2. Trump was fined $5,000 for refusing to remove a lie-riddled post about a law clerk.
3. He was fined $10,000 for violating a court order by smearing a court clerk.
4. He lost his first E. Jean Carroll defamation case for $5 million. The jury ruled that he defamed and sexually abused her.
5. Trump lost a second defamation against Carroll after he smeared her again. He owes $83.3 million.
6. The case New York Attorney General Letitia James brought against him that showed that the Trump Organization repeatedly engaged in fraud.
Any single one of these would be devastating if mentioned in front of a jury. All of them presented together would be an utter disaster for Trump. They prove that he is a habitual, unrepentant criminal..............
https://twitter.com/OccupyDemocrats/status/1782436885711016430
Holy sh*t. Trump fell asleep again. He would hate it if this picture went viral.
I wonder if Trumps flatulence will kick in???
Holy sh*t. Trump fell asleep again. He would hate it if this picture went viral.
https://twitter.com/TeaPainUSA/status/1782424969739116612
https://twitter.com/pittenn_emily/status/1782426360431948141
The story goes that when Trump was in the Oval Office, he did not appear until about 11am
https://twitter.com/rulymob/status/1782425655197479088
Trump lawyer defends $175 million bond in New York civil fraud case
Source: reuters
April 22, 20249:51 AM CDTUpdated a min ago
NEW YORK, April 22 (Reuters) - A lawyer for Donald Trump tried to convince a judge on Monday that the insurer that provided the former U.S. president with a $175 million bond in his New York civil fraud case was empowered and strong enough to issue the guarantee.
The bond issued by Knight Specialty Insurance is meant to secure Trump's compliance with a $454.2 million judgment won by state Attorney General Letitia James if he does not succeed in an appeal.
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Knight is owned by billionaire Trump supporter Don Hankey.
At a hearing, Trump's lawyer Christopher Kise assured Engoron that Trump couldn't move money out of the account without Knight's approval, and Schwab would not allow it. "We have to put the money somewhere," Kise said.
Engoron, however, questioned the security of the collateral.
"You keep using the word agreement, what if they break the agreement?" he asked. "It all seems like a house of cards."
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James said in court papers that a Trump-owned trust still controls the account, and Knight's own financial arrangements appear insufficient to cover the amount of the bond.............................
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Read more: https://www.reuters.com/world/us/trumps-175-million-bond-goes-before-judge-new-york-ags-concerns-2024-04-22/
I do not see in the article if the Judge resolved this issue--unless I missed it.
https://x.com/moonbreeze2/status/1782429928295633022
Brilliant new ad from the Biden campaign shows how no one except Republicans would ever give a job to a guy who was liab
Brilliant new ad from the Biden campaign shows how no one except Republicans would ever give a job to a guy who was liable of sexual assault and has 88 felony charges.
https://twitter.com/marlene4719/status/1782376969952239627
Russian State TV praising Marge: "Greene is a real beauty. She is a blond who wears white coats with a fur collar. She's
I do believe is a dyed blonde but who cares!!
Russian State TV praising Marge: “Greene is a real beauty. She is a blond who wears white coats with a fur collar. She’s demonstrably heterosexual.”
https://twitter.com/RpsAgainstTrump/status/1782192650252124280
https://twitter.com/JaredRyanSears/status/1782193015513125320
Biden marks Earth Day with $7bn 'solar for all' investment amid week of climate action
Source: the guardian
Funds will be targeted at disadvantaged areas to create 200,000 jobs, after last week’s oil and gas lease restrictions in Alaska
Richard Luscombe Mon 22 Apr 2024 05.02 EDT
Joe Biden will mark Monday’s Earth Day by announcing a $7bn investment in solar energy projects nationwide, focusing on disadvantaged communities, and unveiling a week-long series of what the White House say will be “historic climate actions”.
The president is traveling to Virginia’s Prince William Forest Park to deliver a speech touting his environmental record, including measures to tackle the climate crisis and increase access to, and lower costs of, clean energy.
Today’s centerpiece is the announcement of $7bn in grants through the Environmental Protection Agency’s “solar for all” program, funded by last year’s $369bn bipartisan Inflation Reduction Act, which the Biden administration says benefits more than 900,000 households.
The money will be targeted at low-income and disadvantaged areas, government officials say, and distributed through “states, territories, tribes, municipalities and non-profits across the country”.
Solar projects funded by the program will also create 200,000 jobs, the administration says, and advance Biden’s Justice40 initiative, in which at least 40% of the benefits of investments in federal climate clean energy, and affordable and sustainable housing projects, are directed to communities “marginalized by underinvestment and overburdened by pollution”.............................
Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/apr/22/biden-earth-day-solar-investment-climate-actions
Indeed, we are fortunate to have President Biden in the Oval Office.
https://twitter.com/Greenpeace/status/1782235070650261894
https://twitter.com/moonbreeze2/status/1782349091705438284
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