Fierce Healthcare February 16, 2024
The now chronic problem of more expensive agency staff and potentially lower quality care in nursing homes needs to be addressed as part of calls for increased oversight of the sector, according to a recent academic study in Health Affairs.
Before the COVID-19 pandemic, approximately 23% of nursing homes in the U.S. used agency nursing staff, equivalent to about 3% of all nursing hours worked. By 2022, almost half of nursing homes used such staff, accounting for approximately 11% of all nursing hours worked, according to study data.
In addition to the increasing numbers of temporary staff in the period studied, almost 14% of nursing homes were using agency staff every day by 2022 to help address chronic...
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