Dietary assistant Mr. Mr Vartu, 33, said he was paid about 80 80,880 an hour, which he said had been the same since he started working about a year ago. Ms. Julius, a certified nurse, earns about $ 12 an hour.
Cheryl Carlos, 56, works three days seven days a week in Port St. Lucy, north of West Palm Beach. One in a nursing home and the other in a retirement community; She earns extra income by caring for some people in private homes. That’s about an hour. 13 makes.
“Let me tell you something, I don’t have a life,” she said recently, returning home early in the morning after completing a nine-hour shift. “If some jobs were paying you enough, you didn’t have to do that.”
Nursing home advocates say most facilities have less control over other job employees. Wage increases, they say, are difficult when income is determined by the state or Medicare.
Dr. advising on the care of the elderly at the Institute for Healthcare Improvement. “There are really good bosses who do a good job and try to pay people more,” says Alice Bonner.
“But if you’re getting a lot of Medicaid clients in your nursing home, and you’re getting very little money for those customers, and it can’t cover your expenses, it’s really hard to even increase salaries and benefits.”
In May and early June, Mr. Vartu and Ms. at Lake Worth Rehabilitation and Skilled Nursing. One of Julius’s employers, Avant, fired him for violating the policy by coming to work despite having coronavirus, the employees and their union, who are complaining about being fired.
