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December 30, 2023 at 10:41 AM. ... In 2021, the General Assembly passed a law that gave Rhode Island the highest standards for nursing home staffing in the country.
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services in April finalized new minimum staffing standards for nursing homes, requiring them to assess residents' needs and provide 3.48 hours of direct care ...
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 ...
The government said that means a facility with 100 residents would need two or three registered nurses and 10 or 11 nurse aides as well as two additional nurse staff per shift to meet the new standards. 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 complaint cites studies finding 94% of current skilled nursing facilities lack the staffing to meet new requirements and would have to hire more than 100,000 new fulltime employees in a job ...
In Health and Hospital Corporation of Marion County v.Talevski, 599 U.S. 166 (2023), the United States Supreme Court held that the provisions of the Nursing Home Reform Act at issue unambiguously created rights enforceable under Section 1983 of the Ku Klux Klan Act (codified at 42 U.S.C. § 1983), and private enforcement under §1983 is compatible with the Nursing Home Reform Act’s remedial ...
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 ...
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.