Skilled Nursing News June 24, 2024
Even though Derek Prince, CEO of HMG Healthcare, has been encouraging new initiatives to improve staffing at this organization and is celebrating wins on that front, he is fully aware of the unfolding crisis the federal minimum staffing mandate will represent for providers across Texas.
Hence, Prince, who is also a board member of the Texas Health Care Association, agreed to join the American Health Care Association in filing a lawsuit seeking to dismiss the staffing mandate.
In his conversation with Skilled Nursing News, Prince noted that Texas, due to longstanding funding issues, ranks poorly in staffing metrics nationwide. In the midst of this, the staffing rule poses an immense challenge to Texas facilities, which face a staggering shortfall of...