U.S. Bill Would Require More Staffing And Curtail Arbitration In Nursing Homes

‘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...

New Research on Health Care Staff Turnover and Quality of Care at Nursing Homes

Oct 9, 2023

News Digest: Research into union impact on turnover and retentionIn this cross-sectional study of 1.45 million facility-weeks (corresponding to 13 826 unique facilities), within a given facility periods of greater turnover of nursing staff were...

CMS Updates Staffing & Turnover Measures

Sep 21, 2023

the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) issued updates to guidance on minimum health and safety standards that Long-Term Care (LTC) facilities (often called “nursing homes”) must meet to participate in Medicare and Medicaid.

CMS also updated and developed new guidance in the State Operations Manual (SOM) to address issues that significantly affect residents of LTC facilities.

President Biden Op-Ed Claims Nursing Homes are Putting Residents at Risk

Sep 1, 2023

News Digest: President Biden Claims Nursing Homes are putting residents at risk With the long anticipated announcement of first-of-their-kind minimum staffing rules, the volume is turned up to 10 across the industry. Knowing the strong pushback...

CMS Issues Proposed Minimum Staffing Rule

Sep 1, 2023

News Digest: CMS Issues Proposed New Minimum Staffing Rule Some predicted that the payroll-based journal program was intended to enable the creation of a minimum staffing requirement. 8 years after the PBJ program was launched, that prediction...