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Human Resources
I've commented to the legislature and this committee already about the ACC's Director of Nursing and Assistant Director of Nursing, who are not qualified for their jobs under civil service requirements. The county, as operator, is responsible for ensuring that civil service procedures are in place at the facility and for hiring and firing of all management level employees. However, the Assistant County Manager has stated that since the current qualifications are sufficient for a private facility, it's ok for us. The HR Director has not commented, but since she is subordinate to the County Manager, she wouldn't do that publicly, if at all.
So, who oversees the county manager's office? It's the legislature, isn't it? This is not what I would call getting down into the weeds. It's a big problem when top management flagrantly refuses to do their jobs properly, within the standards of their own laws and contracts, and it becomes a bigger problem as that attitude trickles down throughout the workforce. It's a big problem when nursing home operators openly flout the requirements, and our county management is complicit with a contractor which uses human resources as if they were commodities, where the cheapest available labor is hired even after they were just terminated by the county, and over half the staff at the ACC are per diems. That's no way to run a health facility. As the three little piggies learned, if you use the cheapest materials to build a house, your building will collapse. At a nursing home, the result of continually downgrading staff qualifications is neglect of the residents. That is why the nursing home's rating has once again become a 1 star. One star, the lowest possible rating. Later today, I have no doubt that you'll hear the Assistant Administrator trying to explain how it's not Infinitecare's fault. The point is that conditions at the ACC haven't improved under the arrangements we have.
It's up to our leg...
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