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Nursing homes in my area are like $3500 a month and they'll have one or two people working the 12 hour shift from 7pm to 7 am making jack shit who don't know a damn thing and then call the fire department for free labour if an elderly person has fallen to the ground and needs help getting up. The nursing home doesn't want the financial risk of their employees getting hurt, or hurting a patient getting them off the ground. That might cost them a tiny sliver of the profits they take in.
FWIW, I'm a massage therapist who works in hospice. Legally, if someone falls I'm not allowed to try to get them up because that's not an area of training for licensing/my scope of practice does not allow it. Someone working in a nursing home would be trained on safe transfers, BUT if there's a chance the patient experienced an injury or is unable to assist in getting up themselves, it really is safer for all parties to get a lift assist from the fire department. If I had a loved one that needed to stay in a rehab/nursing facility and they sustained a fall, I'd rather the extra set of eyes assess before just putting them back in bed.
Exactly nothing prevents a NURSING home from having a nurse or first responder on the payroll there. Also keep in mind that they are calling for a lift assist. Not an injury. They're making the determination that the patient isn't hurt and opting to not have an ambulance show up. They're calling for a literal $1,000,000 truck that gets 4 mpg with 4 people to show up and provide labor.