Parents of medically fragile kids can’t find nurses because the pay is so low. They want Colorado lawmakers to step in.  ...Middle East

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Parents of medically fragile kids can’t find nurses because the pay is so low. They want Colorado lawmakers to step in. 
Nurses willing to care for medically fragile children and adults — including patients who use feeding tubes, can’t walk or speak, and rarely leave their homes — are hard to find in Colorado.  Amid a statewide nursing shortage so dire that even state mental institutions offer $14,000 signing bonuses, the lowest-paying nursing positions are going unfilled. That means many parents who have relied on “private duty nurses” for in-home care for their children and adult children are getting no help.  Colorado’s Medicaid program reimburses the agencies that employ these in-home nurses at some of the lowest rates in the nation, according to the Home Care and Hospice Association of Colorado. Th

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