How many nursing care facilities are there in the US. How many residents thereof are there in the US? Divide 29 by that number to get a percentage, and probably get a number in E notation.
Then tell us again why it's a big deal.
Posted on 09/26/2006 12:45:51 AM PDT by SheLion
Delaware County's ban on smoking in most work places has become a problem for some nursing homes, which are both work places for employees and homes for the residents.
The smoking ordinance does not prevent people from smoking in their homes, but it does ban smoking in most public buildings and work spaces.
If a nursing home bans smoking, they could lose federal funding for failing to comply with regulations, but if they allow smoking they could face fines or a lawsuit from the county health department, officials said.
Federal regulations state that if a nursing home changes its policy and bans smoking, it must create an appropriate area for current residents to continue smoking.
Robin Shackleford, a policy and research specialist for the Indiana Health Care Association, said nursing homes could jeopardize their Medicaid and Medicare funding if they follow the county's ban.
"This is not a health issue - it's a patients' rights issue," Shackleford said. "The facilities are caught in the middle of deciding which law to comply with."
To fix the problem, Delaware County commissioners have introduced an ordinance to exempt nursing homes from the smoking ban. But two of the three commissioners say they don't plan to approve the exemption when final action is taken on Oct. 2.
Commissioner Larry Crouch said smoking should not be allowed in nursing homes.
"How many people are in these nursing homes because of a smoking habit?" Crouch asked.
If JimRob decides I don't then you are right. Until then you are just blowing smoke.
"I go back to the room, pick up the phone, call his doctor and get a prescription for a shot of whiskey a day and a beer on Sunday.
When he died at 99 I made sure there was a bottle of JD in his pocket. I still feel guilty; if I'd withheld the whiskey he'd probably have lived to be ...99 1/2."
Great post!! I work in two nursing homes. Out of the 150 residents that I work with only 9 are smokers. We take them outside to smoke only as time allows. I beleive that at 80+ years of age they should be allowed to enjoy life pretty much as they see fit. I also think that diabetics should be allowed sweets if they so choose what the H*ll is it gonna hurt. Not that the home allows the diabetics to have sweets I just think they should. We have happy hour once a week where residents can consume alcohol. We also have residents who have a beer or glass of wine everyday. These people have seen enough heartache in their lives why not let live out their last years smoking if they want?
Side note....NO ONE is allowed to smoke with their oxygen on...EVER!!!!!!!!!!!
And smoking has turned into a political statement.
I'm exercising my free speech rights.
No one is stopping or suggesting that you or others not speak your mind. However, exhaling smoke is not a protected free speech right.
Me! Who else? LOL~
My mother always said if I can't say something nice about someone, don't say anything at all.
So.......................no comment!
Well, it wasn't until it was politicized.
Now it is.
You already violated your mom's maxim by falsely accusing me of saying something nasty.
Only in your mind.
Hi SheLion!
Thanks to you I've been syo'ing for almost a year now. No taxes to federal, state or city governments.
GREAT ORATORS OF THE REPUBLICAN PARTY, VOLUME 1
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We who live in free market societies believe that growth, prosperity and ultimately human fulfillment, are created from the bottom up, not the government down. Only when the human spirit is allowed to invent and create, only when individuals are given a personal stake in deciding economic policies and benefitting from their success -- only then can societies remain economically alive, dynamic, progressive, and free. Trust the people. This is the one irrefutable lesson of the entire postwar period contradicting the notion that rigid government controls are essential to economic development.
---Ronald Reagan
It is dangerous to allow smoking. This should be a safety issue.
---Raycpa
Watch.
I pass a nursing home every day. In the winter is see those poor old, frail people out in the cold, rain and snow smoking. How they don't die of pneumonia I don't know.
I wonder why the antis and whiners would be worried about a list? I would consider it an honor if they blacklisted me. I can't stand the jack-boot lickers.
How many nursing care facilities are there in the US. How many residents thereof are there in the US? Divide 29 by that number to get a percentage, and probably get a number in E notation.
Then tell us again why it's a big deal.
GREAT ORATORS OF THE REPUBLICAN PARTY, VOLUME II:
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"What more is necessary to make us a happy and prosperous people? Still one thing more … a wise and frugal government, which shall restrain men from injuring one another, which shall leave them otherwise free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement, and shall not take from labor the bread it has earned."
---Thomas Jefferson
"It sometimes takes a large amount of data to beging to offset the large amount of denial that happens on these threads. Smoking in nursing homes is a serious safety issue that cannot be ignored."
---Raycpa
I am watching all the time and can see there is no evidence to back your paranoia.
Bless you. Just because time has robbed them of some abilities doesn't mean they have to stop living and get stacked up like like wood and sit around waiting to die.
GREAT ORATORS OF THE REPUBLICAN PARTY, VOLUME III:
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"Though force can protect in emergency, only justice, fairness, consideration and cooperation can finally lead men to the dawn of eternal peace."
---Dwight D. Eisenhower
"No wonder you are loosing the fight to be able to blow smoke over anyone at anytime since you are so defensive you create enemies where there are none unless they bow to the God, Ciggie."
---justshutupandtakeit
Not too surprising that the cost of using the gum is roughly equivalent to that of smoking. If they really wanted people to quit they'd sell it cheap.
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