The nurses that are taking the same risks and spend much more time with the EPSDT and CCC Plus Waiver members did not get Hazard Pay last month.  And did not get a raise the last time the aides did.  Why is that?  Are the nurses not valuable?  The nursees take of the MOST sick and most critically ill Medicaid Members and that does not deserve a raise like the aides get? Are you going to train the aides to take care of a child on a ventilator?  

There are not enough nursing home beds in the state to take all of the nursing members that are in the Waivers.  But it is hard to stay when the nurses are not even given raises or treated as well as the aides are in Va. No hazard pay. No raises. Will equal NO nurses.