Assisted Living in Vancouver WA | Adult Family Homes | Memory Care

Our reason for  this business is to bring support to those that need it most. Anyone requiring assistance in their living environment is vulnerable. We investigate the assisted living and adult family home facilities in the Vancouver WA  area so that we can help people make educated decisions and insure the best care for themselves and/or their loved ones.

 I-1163 is presented as something that will protect the elderly and others that require assistance in their living situation. We have reviewed this initiative and feel it is important to educate our readers on what we have found.

We feel the Columbian has made a good case to vote NO on I-1163 and invite you to read the article they posted about this critical issue here: http://www.columbian.com/news/2011/oct/14/no-on-i-1163/.

We are also happy to share the information sent to us via email by PATTI GRAY, RN, CHCE:

INITIATIVE 1163 – THE SON OF 1029

 SEIU 775 does not give up easily. Even after WSRCC’s political team  successfully worked with state legislators to stop the pointless  expense  and onerous provisions of I-1029, putting the mandatory caregiver  training measure on-hold until 2014, SEIU wrote a slew of different  initiatives. They finally settled on I-1163, which may as well be  called  “Son of 1029″.

 In pushing I-1163, they’re just recycling the same misleading messages

 - and outright lies – used to pass Initiative 1029.

 There are very few differences between I-1029 and I-1163. The real  political motives behind these initiative efforts are complicated and  not easy to explain in just a few words to someone who hasn’t studied  SEIU’s agenda (for starters, they want to unionize all caregivers in  the  State of Washington). When you are asked about I-1163, or have to the  chance to talk with friends, neighbors and your clients’ families, here  are some of the points you can make:

 1. I-1163 is a power grab no different than I-1029. If it were to pass,  it would require redundant, expensive and pointless training – paid by  taxpayers for SEIU members, but by long-term-care providers who have no  input into the training curriculum that directly impacts their workers.

 2. The cost of increased training hours for your caregivers will not  improve the quality of care you provide your residents – but it will  come out of your pocket.

 3. Once again, I-1163 is an unfunded mandate expected to cost taxpayers  more than $50 million in the next two years, but offers voters no way  to  pay for it.

 4. I-1163 requires mandatory background checks for caregivers. However,  mandatory background checks are already required. This initiative  duplicates and increases the expense to taxpayers.

 5. WSRCC demands training conducted by qualified educators and medical  professionals, preferably in accredited institutions such as community  colleges, trade schools, medical and long-term-care facilities. SEIU’s  training program is conducted by inexperienced, unqualified union  activists in union conference rooms.

 SEIU is paying signature gatherers, who are attempting to get  initiative signatures by claiming that I-1163 will improve the quality  of care for adult family home residents. This is a lie, pure and  simple.

 The object of I-1163, just as it was with I-1029, is simply to swell  the  membership rolls (and therefore the coffers) of SEIU 775, at the  expense  of taxpayers who have no idea what they’re really doing when they sign  an initiative signature sheet.

 WSRCC’s political and public affairs team is going to continue to fight  against SEIU’s initiatives, and educate the voting public to NOT sign  I-1163. We want taxpayer dollars spent on direct services to vulnerable  adults and to long term care. We do not want precious tax resources  wasted on union-building activities masquerading as something it is  not.

 Join with us to educate your friends, families and colleagues: do NOT  sign I-1163.