In honor of National Nursing Assistant Week on June 17-24, Rose Marie Pardo, resident at Hancock Park Rehabilitation & Nursing Center in Quincy, calls for legislation and funding to pay CNAs a living wage. Her op-ed, CNAs are heroes: It’s time to pay them a living wage, was published in The Patriot Ledger last week.
“My ‘Dream Team’ as I call them are made up of four women, CNAs, who make sure that I am healthy, safe, protected, happy, comforted and well.” said Rose Marie Pardo, who has been a resident at Hanock Park for six years. “There are 30,000 CNAs in Massachusetts like Marie Chantel, Cat, Miriam and Margareth. Together, we must raise our voices and tell elected officials it is now time to give our nursing facility heroes what they deserved all along, a living wage for the work they do.”
To read the entire op-ed, please click here.