Nursing homes will have to maintain minimum staffing levels under a Biden administration proposal despite furious lobbying from the industry, which says it will be too onerous amid a continuing labor shortage.

Biden administration officials said the first-ever national staffing rule would require nursing homes that participate in Medicare and Medicaid to provide a minimum of 0.55 hours of care from a registered nurse per resident a day, and 2.45 hours of care from a nurse aide per resident a day. A registered nurse would be required to be on-site at all times and nursing-home care assessments would be strengthened under the proposal.

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services estimates that about 75% of nursing homes would have to strengthen staffing in their facilities under the proposal. The proposed staffing standard exceeds those existing in nearly all states.

The administration said it also plans to launch a national initiative to tackle the staffing shortage in the nursing-home industry. It will invest more than $75 million in financial incentives such as scholarships and tuition reimbursement to support staffing prospects for nursing homes.

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    1 year ago

    My wife worked at an assisted living facility for a while and it’s no better. Plus they’d frequently delay transferring patients who really needed to be in a nursing home to try to squeeze an extra month or two out of them, leading to patients being more often transferred to hospice care than a nursing home

    The amount of BS that occurred leads me to believe it’s either an unsustainable business model that pushes assisted living and nursing homes to be so terrible or a severe lack of government oversight and consequences for facilities that allows them to be so scummy