To the Editor:
I am writing to you concerning something I discovered recently on my travels in the Mon Valley.
I have discovered how poor the care is in nursing homes and personal care homes. One personal care home I visited only had two people working there to take care of 25 residents.
At $1,200 a month for each resident, they are making a killing and treating the people like vegetables, doing little in the way of care. In the nursing home, the had about five people working there to take care of 60 people in need of nursing care. The nursing home charges $2,500 a month.
I am concerned that the personal care homes and nursing homes do not give adequate care to their residents. I feel the government and the insurance companies should investigate the homes.
If the homes are found to have sub-standard care, they should be shut down by the state. We should not treat the elderly and disabled this way.
Kenneth Zaydel Sr.
Monongahela
