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Medicare cuts to pinch senior care

By Michael Martin, Tribune staff photographer

Brandi Christenson of Albert Lea serves homemade ice cream

to residents of St. John’s Lutheran Home Thursday. The elder-care

industry is concerned that with Medicare reimbursement not keeping

pace with costs, it will continue to be hard to retain nursing

workers. St. John’s has a 64 percent turnover rate, its president

said.