Area nursing homes deal with staffing shortages

By Brian C. Rittmeyer and Julia Maruca

Trib Total Media

An employee at a Westmoreland County nursing home says the conditions of her job have brought her to tears. Residents regularly have to wait for help and often go hungry because of a lack of people to feed them. A single staffer sometimes is asked to care for 60 residents overnight.

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