Representative Phil Jensen (R-33/Rapid City) has a lot of predictable right-wing horsehockey in his bucket of bills. But he also has a couple of bills…
Tag: nursing homes
Several days ago, I mentioned AARP’s maps showing that South Dakota has the worst rates of confirmed coronavirus cases and deaths among nursing home residents…
In normal times, if seventeen residents of one nursing home died in less than a month from some preventable malady—botulism, food poisoning, whatever—we’d be freaking…
A bunch of finance guys from Chicago now own the sixteen South Dakota nursing homes that remain open from the Skyline Healthcare debacle. Cascade Capital…
In a sign of the increasing momentum and cross-partisan appeal of my petition drives, Representative Carl Perry (R-3/Aberdeen) signed the HB 1094 Referendum petition this…
Governor Kristi Noem’s Next Big Thing certainly isn’t the number of nursing homes serving our old folks. Covington Care and Rehab in Sioux Falls announced…
While I’m digging through Rep. Goodwin’s ramblings, I am pleased to find that, in a way, Rep. Goodwin seems to support something like the estate…
To beat the impending blizzard, the Legislature convened just after midnight, passed a 4.9-billion-dollar budget that most of them had not read, and adjourned at 3…
While Governor Kristi Noem fabricates a crisis out of protests that haven’t happened yet, a Huron nursing home is closing. The 36 residents who will…
Rookie Representative Carl Perry (R-3/Aberdeen) continues to insist that liberal blog Dakota Free Press plays a vital role in civic education: In his wide-ranging opening comments…