McKnight's August 30, 2022
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services has revised guidance for a temporary nurse aide training program that has threatened many individuals’ ability to come into compliance by an Oct. 7 deadline.
The agency said it now will issue waivers that may be statewide, county-wide or at the individual facility level.
The waiver program was put into place during the pandemic to enable a better flow of aides coming into nursing homes beleaguered by lasting staffing shortages. CMS, however, announced in April, that all aides would have to meet normal compliance standards by the first week of October. Stakeholders said immediately that might not be attainable in certain areas given testing backlogs.
In issuing earlier official communications this year,...
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