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Jeff Vasilinda becomes the Vasilinda Family’s first published author! April 21st, 2021 by Mike Vasilinda The Florida House gave tentative approval for nursing homes to substitute a new class of employees known a Personal Care Attendants for some of the duties of Certified Nursing Assistants Wednesday. AARP and others argue the homes want to get by on the cheap to fill required hours of care, but the homes have said without PCA’s, meeting requirements for care will be almost impossible. Before COVID, nursing homes were already facing staffing shortages. “We have a workforce crisis. We n...

Bill aims to make personal care attendants fixtures in long-term care facilities Tags:  File photo TALLAHASSEE, Fla. – The Florida House on Wednesday gave tentative approval for long-term care facilities to substitute a new class of employees, known as personal care attendants, for some of the duties of certified nursing assistants. The AARP and others argue that long-term care facilities and nursing homes want to get by on the cheap to fill required hours of care, but facility representatives have said meeting requirements for care would be almost impossible without PCAs. Even prior to ...

Floridians, especially seniors, are one step closer to being protected from scams relating to the COVID vaccine. The first bill approved by a newly created legislative committee on the pandemic would make it a felony for someone to fraudulently charge someone for offering to put them at the front of the vaccine line. Reports of vaccine scams are growing. Jared Moskowitz is the Director of the Florida Division of Emergency Management and is in charge of the vaccine distribution network. “People are trying to set up fake calendars, fake appointments. You know, we have foreign actors trying to...

Floridians, especially seniors, are one step closer to being protected from scams related to the COVID-19 vaccine.