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The average U.S. nursing home already has overall caregiver staffing of about 3.6 hours per resident per day, including RN staffing just above the half-hour mark, but the government said a ...
The federal government will, for the first time, dictate staffing levels at nursing homes, the Biden administration said Friday, responding to systemic problems bared by mass COVID-19 deaths.
The state of Iowa, where nursing homes have compiled one of the nation’s worst records for staffing-level violations, has joined 19 other states in suing the Biden administration to block the ...
Current law only requires that nursing homes have “sufficient” staffing, leaving it up to states for interpretation. The new rule would implement a minimum number of hours that staff spend with residents. It will also require a registered nurse to be available around the clock at the facilities, which are home to about 1.2 million people.
More than 200,000 nursing home and long-term care residents died during the first two years of the COVID-19 pandemic, with the spread of the virus and resulting deaths linked to staffing shortages.
Some 75% of nursing homes will have to hire staff – including 12,000 registered nurses and 77,000 aides – to meet the daily care requirements, according to the Department of Health and Human ...
Under the requirements unveiled in April, all nursing homes that receive federal funding through Medicare and Medicaid will need to have a registered nurse on staff 24 hours per day, seven days ...
The new rules require every nursing home that receives federal Medicare or Medicaid funding to provide a minimum of 3.48 hours of direct care from nursing staff, including registered nurses and ...