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CMS launches campaign to support nursing home staffing rule
Becker's Healthcare December 18, 2024
CMS has launched a Nursing Home Staffing Campaign to address industry-wide workforce shortage concerns as organizations attempt to stop an impending minimum nursing home staffing rule in the courts.
About 40 states and nonprofits have sued HHS and CMS over a staffing rule that, when implemented in 2026, would require long-term care facilities to have a registered nurse on site for 24 hours per day, seven days a week as opposed to the current requirement of eight hours per day, seven days a week.
The American Hospital Association in October filed an amicus brief in support of one lawsuit challenging the federal government’s nursing staffing level mandate.
“Imposing inflexible numerical thresholds on long-term-care facilities will lead to worse...
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