Going Above and Beyond to Provide Care

Back in November, NPR ran a moving story about two employees of an ALF who stayed to care for residents left behind when the ALF closed, leaving the residents to fend for themselves.  The NPR story, ‘If We Left, They Wouldn’t Have Nobody’ tells how the cook and the janitor stayed to care for the residents, even though the rest of the employees left when they were no longer paid.  The article notes that the story was the catalyst for legislation, “the Residential Care for the Elderly Reform Act of 2014.” The audio of the story is available here.