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A coalition of 20 states is suing the Biden administration over a policy that mandates minimum staffing levels in nursing homes, arguing it will result in a mass shutdown of nursing homes and ...
(The Center Square) – Lawmakers and special interest groups want the state to enforce existing law that requires nursing home operators to meet staffing requirements. At a news conference ...
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 ...
Specifically, the Federal Nursing Home Reform Act is a part of the Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1987 which gives guidelines to regulate nursing home care in the United States. The act was intended to advance nursing home residents' rights. The Nursing Home Reform Act provides guidelines and minimal standards which nursing homes must meet.
California has the only legislatively mandated nurse-to-patient ratios in the country. [3] In December 2020, during the fall/winter COVID-19 pandemic surge, governor Gavin Newsom gave all hospitals a temporary waiver from those mandates, which allowed hospitals, for example, to have ICU nurses care for three patients rather than two.
"In the absence of this action, fines of more than $65 million resulting from the staffing mandate would have been issued to seventy-three (73) Rhode Island nursing facilities for the period of ...
In 2004, California became the first state to legally mandate minimum nurse-to-patient staffing ratios in acute care hospitals. [102] A subsequent study evaluated the effect on outcomes for nurses and patients by comparing outcomes in California in the subsequent two years with those of New Jersey and Pennsylvania — two similar states without ...
"Mandated ratios affect access to care and the health care organizations' abilities to provide services." ... the state already lost a nursing facility at Wahiawa General Hospital and Oahu Home ...