Skilled Nursing News April 1, 2025
Nursing home surveys – already an area of trouble given chronic underfunding – are set to fall into deeper turmoil amid massive workforce cuts and restructuring planned at the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS).
Chiquita Brooks-LaSure, former chief of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), expressed skepticism that the Trump administration’s staff cuts to federal health agencies won’t impact health programs – including those that aid nursing home residents.
Notably, Brooks-LaSure said nursing home surveys will likely be impacted between impending cuts and federal agencies being subject to a hiring freeze, Brooks-LaSure said during a press conference on Friday. She is currently a senior fellow at progressive think tank The Century Foundation.
“One of the reasons...
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