CMS Official: We’re ‘Very Seriously’ Weighing Nursing Home Operators’ Staffing Concerns, Creative Solutions Needed

‘Only the Beginning’: Staffing Mandate Assessments May Push Operators to the Brink

Nov 16, 2023

‘Only the Beginning’: Staffing Mandate Assessments May Push Operators to the BrinkBeyond minimum staffing requirements, operators may need to prepare for updated assessment requirements, which leaders say will be a “core” aspect of the mandate,...

LPN Exclusion Triggers Confusion & Questions

Nov 14, 2023

News Digest: Mandated Nursing Minimums Ignores Key Nursing Role CNA's, LPN's and RN's form the backbone of skilled nursing facilities. All three roles are used in calculating and determining a facility's Five Star staffing rating. Yet the...

Understanding Staffing Compliance Issues & Exemptions

Nov 13, 2023

News Digest: Proposed Rule Includes More than Minimum Staffing Lost in the uproar over minimum staffing requirements for RN's and CNA's are a number of additional provisions in CMS' Proposed Minimum Staffing Rule. A delayed rollout and provisions...

How Can Facilities Get Ready for Minimum Staffing Requirements?

Nov 12, 2023

News Digest: Resolving Staffing Shortages Is Key to Compliance with Mandate PBJ data and labor force participation data illustrate the challenge for the senior care industry to add staff to the required levels. Various studies and interpretations...

Comments on Staffing Rule Pour in to CMS

Nov 6, 2023

News Digest: Overwhelming Response to CMS' Proposed Rule on Minimum Staffing The 60 day comment period for the Proposed Minimum Staffing Rule ended November 6, 2023. AHCA and Leading Age associations led efforts to generate industry response. ...

Plans to Defeat CMS’ Proposed Minimums Rule

Nov 4, 2023

News Digest: Various Strategies Floated to Avoid Proposed Minimum Staffing Rule With widespread opposition to CMS' Proposed Rule, a variety of tactics are under consideration to overcome the potential regulations. Both a Congressional over ride...

Congress Weighs in on Proposed Staffing Rule

Nov 2, 2023

News Digest: Legislative branch questions proposed executive rule Federal legislators in Congress vocally responded to CMS' proposed rule. While CMS considers public comments and works on the Final Rule in 2024, the congressional push back can...

Ideas Emerge to Overcome Workforce Shortages

Oct 31, 2023

News Digest: Minimum Staffing Rules Incent Plan to Hire More Nurses As some view a minimum staffing requirement as almost an inevitability, strategies begin to emerge to accomplish tactics such as increasing the available pool of nursing, lowering...

Supporters of Staffing Mandate Speak Out

Oct 25, 2023

News Digest: Consumer Advocates, Unions and Some Congressman Support the Staffing Mandate With the loud and consistent negative reaction to CMS' proposed minimum staffing standards, one could fail to recognize that supporters of the new rule...

Scrutiny on Private Equity & REIT Staffing Performance

Oct 20, 2023

News Digest: How does private equity investment affect nursing home staffing and minimum staffing requirementsOnly 6% of real estate investment trust (REIT) assets are in compliance with the federal minimum staffing proposal for nursing homes,...

Analyses predict high cost of staffing mandate

Oct 10, 2023

News Digest: Billions needed to comply with minimim staffing mandate Competing estimates of the cost to get all skilled nursing facilities to a minimum staffing level all come in with multi-billion dollar price tags. From CMS' estimate of over $4B...

Union Impact on Minimum Staffing Rule

Oct 6, 2023

News Digest: Unions play a role in the minimum staffing pushHealth and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra this week took part in a national union event supporting the proposed nursing home staffing rule, giving the labor audience and their...