Becker's Healthcare December 3, 2024
Nursing home officials said they are counting on the Trump administration to reverse an impending Biden-era staffing level mandate, KFF Health News reported Dec. 3.
About 40 states and nonprofits have sued HHS and CMS over a rule that, when implemented in 2026, would require long-term care facilities to have a registered nurse on site for 24 hours per day, seven days a week as opposed to the current requirement of eight hours per day, seven days a week.
In the lawsuit, the plaintiffs said the final rule “poses an existential threat to the nursing home industry as many nursing homes that are already struggling will have no choice but to go out of business.”
Texas Attorney General Ken...
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