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 of HealthCetera in the Catskills, talked about this rule and the pushback on it with Dr....
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. The action was ...
MEDICAIDLONG-term health careLONG-term care facilitiesNURSESThe article reports that the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) have introduced a rule to enhance the quality of care in Medicare and Medicaid ...
Introduction The association between staffing levels and quality of nursing home care has been a topic of research, policy debates, and federal and state regulations for decades. Recently, the White House announced that, within a year the federal government will implement a new minimum staffing poli...
Improving Food Intake in Nursing Home Residents With Feeding Assistance: A Staffing Analysis. Studies preliminary data relevant to the estimation mealtime staffing needs in nursing homes. Characteristics of participants; Time requirements for implem... Simmons,F Sandra,Osterweil,... - 《Journals of Ger...
Nurse managers working in nursing homes are challenged to develop strategies that maintain a balance among quality of care, nurse staffing levels, and workload within the context of federal and state nurse staffing requirements for nursing homes. One strategy to consider is the use of the Resource...
Through this campaign, CMS will be providing financial incentives for nurses to work in nursing homes, the agency said, without giving specifics. More than 1.2 million residents receive care in Medicare- and Medicaid-certified nursing homes each day. ...
By 2022, almost half of all nursing homes used agency staff, accounting for 11 percent of all direct care nursing staff hours. Agency staff were increasingly used to address chronic staffing shortages, with 13.8 percent of nursing homes having agency staff present every day. Agency staff were ...
CONCLUSIONS: With longitudinal information and quarterly staffing information, we are able to show that for many nursing homes improving staffing characteristics will improve quality of care. 展开 关键词: Keywords staffing nursing homes turnover quality ...
registered nurse staffing and quality for facilities that were particularly deficient prior to the NHRA.Following the NHRA, quality improvements were found in nursing homes nationwide, and these results suggest that part of this improvement was due to the quality and staffing regulations within the ...