Politico June 3, 2024
With Alice Miranda Ollstein and Carmen Paun
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STAFFING MANDATE ANGST — Several nursing home operators say they’ll have trouble meeting a new staffing mandate because of a massive nursing shortage, POLITICO’s Robert King reports.
Yet the Biden administration insists nursing homes shouldn’t fear a new staffing rule, pointing to exemptions and more time to comply.
“There is just not a registered nurse to be found,” administrator Paul Treffert, CEO of the 85-bed nonprofit home Sheboygan Senior Community in Wisconsin, told Robert. “Mandate whatever you want, pay whatever you choose, they are just not there.”
The scale of the nursing shortage could impact whether the rule achieves its goal of improving quality in the nursing home industry.
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