McKnight's May 17, 2024
How’s this for a truly perplexing recipe? Nursing homes are closing, access to care for seniors and adults with disabilities is being restricted, Medicaid reimbursement can’t keep pace with the true cost of care, and fewer and fewer workers are available for staffing the plethora of jobs available throughout the long-term care continuum.
Yet regulators in Washington, D.C., think the perfect addition to this already-blistering five-alarm chili is an unfunded, one-size-fits-all staffing mandate.
No matter how it might be garnished and presented, there’s nothing that will help providers and residents in need of care to swallow down this truly awful concoction.
Here are the facts: there is no new funding attached to this staffing mandate; there has been no movement...
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