Skilled Nursing News October 15, 2025
The nursing home sector hopes to move away from outdated, punitive oversight and toward a more constructive, modern regulatory model in 2026 and beyond – an approach Clif Porter, president and CEO of the American Health Care Association and National Center for Assisted Living (AHCA/NCAL), has been tirelessly working to achieve and refers to as “rationalized regulation.”
The current system, largely unchanged since 1989, fails to reflect today’s skilled nursing landscape, where facilities are caring for increasingly complex patients, he told Skilled Nursing News.
“We’ve gone from largely being a custodial model to now really being an interventionist type model where you’re really dealing with very, very sick and complex patients who have some pretty complicated needs,” said Porter. “To...
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