Nursing homes will have to maintain minimum staffing levels under a Biden administration proposal despite furious lobbying from the industry, which says it will be too onerous amid a continuing labor shortage.
Biden administration officials said the first-ever national staffing rule would require nursing homes that participate in Medicare and Medicaid to provide a minimum of 0.55 hours of care from a registered nurse per resident a day, and 2.45 hours of care from a nurse aide per resident a day. A registered nurse would be required to be on-site at all times and nursing-home care assessments would be strengthened under the proposal.
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services estimates that about 75% of nursing homes would have to strengthen staffing in their facilities under the proposal. The proposed staffing standard exceeds those existing in nearly all states.
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The administration said it also plans to launch a national initiative to tackle the staffing shortage in the nursing-home industry. It will invest more than $75 million in financial incentives such as scholarships and tuition reimbursement to support staffing prospects for nursing homes.
My wife worked at an assisted living facility for a while and it’s no better. Plus they’d frequently delay transferring patients who really needed to be in a nursing home to try to squeeze an extra month or two out of them, leading to patients being more often transferred to hospice care than a nursing home
The amount of BS that occurred leads me to believe it’s either an unsustainable business model that pushes assisted living and nursing homes to be so terrible or a severe lack of government oversight and consequences for facilities that allows them to be so scummy
It’s an unsustainable business model for profit.
"In 2005, private equity-owned firms owned less than 1 percent of skilled nursing facilities. By 2015, they owned 9 percent; the share is likely higher today.
Purchases of nursing homes by private equity firms are associated with higher patient mortality rates, fewer caregivers, higher management fees, and a decline in patient mobility."
https://www.nber.org/digest/202104/how-patients-fare-when-private-equity-funds-acquire-nursing-homes
Squeezing profit out of the end of elderly people’s lives is an extra special level of disgusting
Private equity tries not to ruin anything it touches challenge (impossible)