On April 22, 2024, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) announced new staffing mandates for long-term care (LTC) facilities in an effort to improve care quality in nursing homes (NHs). The guidelines require a minimum of 3.48 h of daily care per resident, including 0.55 h ...
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has sued the Biden Administration to stop a new Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services final rule that requires nursing home staffing standards. The rule,finalized in April, requires nursing homes participating in Medicare and Medicaid programs to provide residents ...
staffing makes a difference in the quality of care and outcomes of that care. The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid recently released long-awaitedfinal rulethat would set federal minimum staffing standards for nursing homes, but there have been efforts to undo it. Diana Mason, PhD, RN, host ...
News Briefs - Federal Judge Rejects Attempt to Stop Nursing Home Staffing Rule - A federal judge has rejected a bid by 20 Republican state attorneys general to block enforcement of a new rule adopted by the outgoing Biden...more New Jersey Regulatory Update Part I - January 2025 ...
President Joe Biden's signature nursing home safety and quality proposal faces intense industry opposition and bipartisan skepticism on Capitol Hill.
Anew federal lawsuit challenging the Biden administration’s newminimum nursing home staffing rulelays out the worst-case scenario: Hundreds of long-term care facilities forced to downsize or close, tens of thousands of vulnerable seniors displaced, and countless others waiting longer for care. ...
TheU.S. Department of Health and Human Services, through the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, has issued aproposed rulethat seeks to establish comprehensive staffing requirements for nursing homes – including, for the first time, national minimum nurse staffing standards. ...
When a nursing home displays signs of unsanitary conditions, inadequate staffing, poorly trained staff, or worse, actual evidence of neglect or abuse happening on the premises, it’s up to us to fight back for our loved ones. When your complaints about conditions in a…Read More Posts ...
It’s been my experience that many of the abuse and negligence cases that occur in nursing homes are the result of poor training and under-staffing. The staff-to-patient ratio is poor and nurses are providing care in areas they are not properly trained in....
“Staffing in the nursing home is one of the most tangible and important elements to ensure high quality care,” said study co-author David Stevenson, PhD, a Health Policy professor at Vanderbilt University Medical Center. “Anyone who has ever set foot in a nursing home knows how important ...