Lawmakers are now joining the side of nursing homes in calling on the Biden administration to reconsider its proposed mandatory federal staffing minimums for nursing facilities.
Industry stakeholders and other concerned groups have until November 6, 2023 to submit comment letters to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services...
Last Friday, the White House and the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) released their long-awaited proposal for a federal minimum staffing mandate in nursing homes.
The proposal would require Medicare and Medicaid nursing homes to provide a baseline minimum 0.55 hours of care from a registered nurse per resident per day...
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services have logged more than 3,000 comments regarding its proposal of mandatory staffing minimums for America's nursing homes. Nursing home operators also learned from AHCA and NCAL that if nursing homes continue to gain jobs at the current, modest pace, a potential recovery to pre-pandemic...
The White House issued a fact sheet at the end of February announcing a plan to improve safety and quality of care at nursing homes by focusing on staffing. Now, industry leaders are responding to Biden's proposed plan while states attempt to address key components of the staffing shortage, such as the rising cost of staffing...National News
While states continue to try to implement their own solutions to the nationwide nursing home staffing shortage, MACPAC recently released a brief which echoes the Biden administration’s call for minimum staffing standards and various pay incentives to help retain staff.
The brief, issued by MACPAC, outlines three main solutions...
The Biden Administration announced Friday a set of reforms aimed at improving the safety and quality of nursing home care. The reforms are intended to hold nursing home facilities accountable and promote transparency by implementing staffing requirements and strict quality standards, among other methods. The proposal has been met with...
The lingering laboring shortage is impacting quality of care and patient intake at hospitals and long-term care facilities nationwide. Amid concerns not only over the availability of workers, but the quality and cost of those workers, Arizona is now one of 15 states fighting back against the impending vaccine mandates which, the state...
Already struggling with staffing due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, nursing homes are now starting to realize just how dire the situation truly is -- with more than 40,000 residents and 67,000 staff contracting COVID in the early weeks of January.
According to data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the...
With a new year at hand, many nursing home and long-term care facility administrators and policy makers are now looking to use challenges faced and lessons learned during 2021 to fuel change in 2022. The change of the calendar has not brought an end to the staffing challenges facing such facilities, fueled by the lightning fast spread of...
As the new Omicron variant of COVID-19 sweeps through the nation, nursing homes are not only struggling to keep up staff and resident vaccination and booster rates, but to protect their most vulnerable without restrictions that might plunge residents back into isolation.
A new study by AARP shows Arizona is the last in the nation...
The COVID-19 pandemic has exacerbated a chronic understaffing issue for nursing home and long-term care facilities that existed long before the public health crisis. Now, facilities are not only struggling to hire and keep their staff, but concerns over quality of care, adequate pay, and the safety of the staff have put continuous...National News
A new study from Weill Cornell Medicine investigators published in JAMA Health Forum suggests quality of care in long-term care facilities declined when private equity firms took over the facilities.
According to Skilled Nursing News, the study found private equity acquisition of nursing homes to be tied to increases in emergency...Arizona News
In the midst of an ongoing staffing shortage, long-term care facilities are looking at new leadership, increased funding, and innovative policies to retain current workers.
In an interview with Skilled Nursing News, incoming president and CEO of the American College of Health Care Administrators (ACHCA) Bob Lane discussed a necessary...
Since COVID-19 reached the United States in early 2020, nursing homes have been at the center of the story. As the vaccine alleviates the threat of the virus, skilled nursing facilities and nursing homes are looking for ways to fix the problems the pandemic exposed.
According to the latest data reported by Kaiser Family...
A new study in Health Affairs reports that in 2017 and 2018 Arizona's median annual turnover rate among nursing staff was between 87.8% and 98.1% as another study showed promising results from a Missouri program that added full-time advance practice nurses to 16 nursing homes producing $31M in savings over six years.
As the sector...
