{"id":2019355,"date":"2023-09-01T13:17:01","date_gmt":"2023-09-01T17:17:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/three-quarters-of-nursing-homes-will-have-to-hire-more-employees-per-new-cms-rule\/"},"modified":"2023-09-01T13:19:17","modified_gmt":"2023-09-01T17:19:17","slug":"three-quarters-of-nursing-homes-will-have-to-hire-more-employees-per-new-cms-rule","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/three-quarters-of-nursing-homes-will-have-to-hire-more-employees-per-new-cms-rule\/","title":{"rendered":"New CMS rule requires most nursing homes to increase staff."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fthree-quarters-of-nursing-homes-will-have-to-hire-more-employees-per-new-cms-rule%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2019355&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><h2>The Biden Administration Takes Action to Improve Nursing Home Staffing<\/h2>\n<p>The Biden administration has announced new federal minimum staffing requirements for nursing homes, aimed at enhancing resident safety and promoting high-quality care. These\u200c requirements, proposed by\u2064 the\u200c Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services\u200c (CMS), are estimated to \u200bimpact \u200dnearly\u200d 75% of facilities, necessitating\u200c an increase in staff sizes.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;Establishing minimum staffing standards for\u200d nursing homes will improve resident\u2064 safety and \u2063promote high-quality care so residents and their families can \u2062have peace of mind,&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>said Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;When facilities are understaffed, residents suffer&#8230; Comprehensive staffing \u200breforms can improve\u2063 working conditions, leading to higher wages and better retention \u2062for this dedicated workforce.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<h3>Proposed Staffing Requirements<\/h3>\n<p>The CMS&#8217;s proposed requirements, set to \u200btake effect in the fall, include a minimum of 0.55 hours of \u2063care per \u200cresident per day from a registered nurse and\u2063 2.45 hours from a nurse&#8217;s aide. These standards exceed\u2064 those in nearly all \u2062states, according\u200b to the Department of Health and Human Services. Additionally, nursing homes will be required to have a registered nurse on duty\u200b at all times.<\/p>\n<h3>A Response to the Pandemic<\/h3>\n<p>This \u200cinitiative is a response to President Joe Biden&#8217;s commitment to improving the quality of care for seniors in nursing homes, particularly in light of the challenges faced\u200c during the coronavirus pandemic. Shockingly,\u2063 nearly 1 in 4\u200d COVID-19 deaths were either patients or workers in nursing homes. These \u200cproposed regulations aim to prevent such tragedies from happening again.<\/p>\n<h3>Improving\u2062 Wages and Recruitment<\/h3>\n<p>The\u200d proposed \u200bregulations also seek to address the issue of low \u2062wages for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/hospital-staff-short-amid-forced-vaccinations\/\" title=\"Hospital staff short amid forced vaccinations\">nursing home employees<\/a>, especially those in\u2063 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/many-employers-are-dropping-bachelors-degree-requirements\/\" title=\"Many Employers Are Dropping Bachelor\u2019s Degree Requirements\">entry-level positions<\/a>. \u200cThe Department of Health and Human\u200b Services believes that increasing wages will help attract and retain qualified staff. Currently, over 500,000 workers provide direct care in\u2063 nursing homes, with the majority being minority women. \u200cTheir work is \u2064undervalued, and the department\u2062 aims to rectify this.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;Wages are\u2064 an important part of job quality and drive challenges in recruitment and\u200d retention of direct care workers,&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>said Miranda Lynch-Smith, senior official performing the duties of the assistant secretary for planning and evaluation.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Our research shows\u200c that in many places, these workers can earn higher wages doing other entry-level work.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/three-quarters-of-nursing-homes-will-have-to-hire-more-employees-per-new-cms-rule\/\" title=\"New CMS rule requires most nursing homes to increase staff.\">nursing home industry market<\/a> was valued at $146.9 billion\u200d as of\u2062 April 2021, employing approximately 1.6 million individuals. The Department of Health and Human Services estimates that 1.2 million people currently reside\u200c in nursing homes across the country, not including those in assisted living facilities and rehabilitation centers.<\/p>\n<p><strong>For more information, read the full article from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\">The Washington\u200c Examiner<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>have peace of mind,&#8221; said CMS Administrator Chiquita Brooks-LaSure. The new requirements aim to address the long-standing issue of understaffing in nursing homes, ensuring that residents receive adequate care and attention. By implementing these standards, the Biden administration seeks to enhance the overall quality of life for nursing home residents and their loved ones.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2019356,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[538],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2019355","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-washington-examiner"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2019355","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2019355"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2019355\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2019356"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2019355"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2019355"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2019355"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}