Skilled Nursing News April 23, 2024
The Centers for Medicaid & Medicare Services’ (CMS) officials said Tuesday that they are confident that facilities will be able to meet the newly finalized staffing mandate’s requirements given the plan to implement it in three phases.
“As the rule’s provisions are carefully calibrated and carefully phased in, we believe that with time, with the careful phase in, facilities can meet the requirements,” officials said during a call with media. “And while some facilities will certainly have to add staff because they have very low staff ratios today … these changes are very much affordable.”
CMS officials acknowledged that some facilities will end up closing, but said that the current situation with inadequate staffing had resulted in poor quality of...
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