Biden Proposes Major Nursing Home Reforms
The Biden administration has announced far-reaching nursing home reforms, targeting staffing and accountability at facilities with deficient care. Advocates are calling the proposals, which include the first-ever federal minimum staffing levels, the most significant reforms in decades.
The new measures are aimed at improving the safety and quality of care in nursing homes, including directing the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) to take such actions as studying the level and type of staffing needed to ensure safe and quality care and propose minimum staffing levels within a year, increasing enforcement actions against poor-performing long-term care facilities, and explore ways to phase out multi-occupancy rooms and promote single-occupancy rooms.
The Consumer Voice, an advocacy group for long-term care issues, calls the proposals the “most significant reforms in nursing homes in decades.”
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