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Terri Hale

Terri Hale

Terri Hale is vice president of The Hale Group, with more than 40 years of experience in communications and public relations in both the public and private sectors.

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The crisis in caring is becoming a catastrophe

By: and - May 23, 2023

A crisis ignored eventually leads to catastrophe, and that’s what we’re witnessing. The word crisis was used in 1990 — 33 years ago — by the Bipartisan Commission of the United States Congress to describe the challenges the nation faced in providing long-term care services to people with disabilities and older citizens. The commission also […]

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Iowa needs to tackle the workforce crisis in long-term care settings

By: and - December 16, 2020

It’s no secret that older Iowans in nursing homes have been hit disproportionately hard by COVID-19. As of Dec. 15, 141 Iowa nursing homes were reporting COVID outbreaks. The number of COVID related deaths in Iowa nursing homes was 1,132, representing about a third of all deaths in the state. They were residents and staff […]