CMS: Nursing Home Minimum Staffing Requirements to Strike Balance Between Opposing Industry Views

Nursing home minimum staffing requirements has been a hot topic for the industry from the moment the initiative was introduced by the Biden administration back in February.

After soliciting feedback through a request for information (RFI) on the topic back in April as part of the proposed rule, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) received more than 3,000 comments on the issue.

Parties including advocacy groups, long-term care ombudsman, industry associations, labor unions and organizations, nursing home staff and administrators, industry experts and other researchers and family members and caretakers of nursing home residents, were among the commenters.