The Challenge From Chronic Underfunding to Inflation to Staffing and More... The overriding focus guiding all SALMON Health and Retirement facilities is the quality of care they provide. SALMON’s commitment to building, maintaining and ensuring quality never wavers. But achieving the industry’s highest quality is complicated and gets more challenging every year. “The chronic underfunding of long-term care combined with the inflationary environment for staffing and costs have made it increasingly difficult for our industry to profitably provide high quality care based on what Medicare and Medicaid pay our facilities,” said Andrew Salmon, Executive Director and Chief Future Officer for the family-owned company that his grandparents founded in 1952.

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