Home Health Care News April 22, 2024
The White House on Monday announced that the nursing home minimum-staffing rule has been finalized.
Effectively, the rule requires all nursing homes that receive Medicare and Medicaid funding to maintain a certain staffing threshold at all times. The U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) first proposed the minimum-staffing requirement last fall.
“Medicare and Medicaid pay billions of dollars per year to ensure that 1.2 million Americans that receive care in nursing homes are cared for, yet too many nursing homes chronically understaff their facilities, leading to sub-standard or unsafe care,” a White House fact sheet from Monday stated.
While the minimum-staffing rule does not apply to home health agencies, it is something that all home-based care providers should...
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