Skilled Nursing News September 17, 2024
The timing and feasibility of the federal staffing mandate continue to haunt nursing home operators and communities, particularly those in rural areas, where providers across the health care continuum are competing to find clinical staff.
Take for example, the case of a nursing home owned by Diversicare Healthcare Services in Yorktown, Texas, which is DeWitt County’s sole nursing home. The county, with its 21,000 residents, had just 99 registered nurses, a number barely sufficient for existing clinical care facilities, let alone for the additional staffing requirements mandated by new regulations, Steve Nee, CEO of Diversicare, noted in a recent conversation with Skilled Nursing News.
“There are simply not enough people to be able to meet the needs of the mandate,”...
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