CMS Official: We’re ‘Very Seriously’ Weighing Nursing Home Operators’ Staffing Concerns, Creative Solutions Needed
Dr. Shari Ling, Deputy Chief Medical Officer for the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) on Thursday confirmed that the agency will release a proposed minimum staffing standard for nursing homes this spring, and said that CMS is taking the comments and the data on staffing very seriously.
“CMS is working on and has fielded a staffing study and also put out a request for other sources of information to help us shape what staffing requirements look like,” Ling told Skilled Nursing News at the publication’s CLINICAL conference in Washington, D.C. “We all will look forward to when we’re able to publicly release and speak to some of the details.”
Ling urged nursing home providers to communicate with CMS about innovations or ideas for creative approaches that could help address the staffing crunch, and flagged that an entire day of the upcoming CMS Quality Conference will be focused on nursing home care.
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Skilled Nursing News
PUBLISHED
April 23, 2023
SOURCE
Grebbin, Shelby. “CMS Official: We’re ‘Very Seriously’ Weighing Nursing Home Operators’ Staffing Concerns, Creative Solutions Needed.” Skilled Nursing News, 24 Apr. 2023, skillednursingnews.com/2023/04/cms-official-were-very-seriously-weighing-nursing-home-operators-staffing-concerns-creative-solutions-needed.
