Top US health official takes more heat over nursing home staffing standards
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Kimberly Marselas
Mar 22, 2024
For the second time in a week, Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra faced a grilling on Capitol Hill over federal regulators’ plans to impose a nurse staffing minimum on all US nursing...
Providers, states grapple with billion-dollar needs ahead of federal staffing minimum
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Kimberly Marselas
Nov 17, 2022
Provider organizations across the country are trying to pinpoint just how much of an investment they’ll need to meet
Democrats push new LTC workforce bill as offset to nursing home mandate
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Kimberly Marselas
Apr 17, 2024
Key Democratic leaders Tuesday positioned new long-term care workforce legislation as a way to support nursing homes when a first-ever staffing mandate is finalized.
Disrupting an ‘ecosystem that works’: Providers rip staffing mandate’s LPN omission
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Kimberly Marselas
Sep 26, 2023
As operators continue to parse a proposed federal staffing mandate, one of the biggest concerns is for workers who get little attention in the proposed regulations: the licensed practical nurses whom many...
Meet the providers who already would satisfy the nursing home staffing mandate
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Kimberly Marselas
Dec 14, 2023
There were few silver linings to be found In the nursing home staffing proposal earlier this year. But a detailed examination of the rule and continued review of federal data show there is reason to hope...
The introduction of a Senate bill intended to block the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services from implementing its proposed nursing home staffing mandate was met roundly with applause from providers...
Comments offer nuances that might salvage CMS staffing rule in operators’ eyes
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Kimberly Marselas
Nov 03, 2023
With just four days left to submit comments on a proposed first-ever federal nursing home staffing rule, providers who haven’t already offered the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services their concerns...