To: The Connecticut State House, The Connecticut State Senate, and Governor Ned Lamont
Provide Visiting Nurses
Don't lower the standards of home healthcare. Nurses need to visit and administer drugs to our fragile seniors, home-bound psychiatric patients and severely disabled, not lesser knowledgeable and less qualified Home Health Aids.
For more information listen to this NPR: All Things Considered News segment:
http://www.npr.org/blogs/health/2012/03/15/148530700/connecticut-considers-letting-health-aides-give-medicines-to-homebound
For more information listen to this NPR: All Things Considered News segment:
http://www.npr.org/blogs/health/2012/03/15/148530700/connecticut-considers-letting-health-aides-give-medicines-to-homebound
Why is this important?
Govenor Malloy's budget revisions call for lowering the level of home health care from visiting nurses to home health aids. Many home-bound psychiatric patients fragile elderly and disabled require daily visits by nurses. Tell Govenor Malloy to stop threatening the welfare of our most fragile citizens by replacing Nurses with poorly trained Home Health Aids.