Posted on 06/10/2024 3:18:07 PM PDT by CFW
An industry group says the Biden administration’s new staffing regulations for long-term care facilities are unrealistic.
The mandate requires that all nursing homes that receive Medicare and Medicaid funding provide a total of at least 3.48 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Plus, nursing homes must have a registered nurse onsite at all times.
Research by SeniorLiving.org shows 82%, or nearly 12,000 facilities in the U.S., will need to hire staff or face being shut down.
Spokesperson Corie Wagner said Illinois is home to the fifth highest number of understaffed nursing homes in the country.
“If we were to apply the new policies and new standards to nursing homes in Illinois today, 84% of facilities would need more staff, and that is really significant,” said Wagner.
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And while they’re at it, raise the minimum wage to $20.00/hr. I’m sure more regulation will solve all of our problems.
I’ve worked in a couple of nursing homes as a nurse and was DON at one. Nursing home owners and administrators hire the least amount of help they can legally get by with. Period. It’s all about the money. I welcome rules to increase staff in them.
To bed the Government is sending all the money to the Ukraine and can’t help some of the expenses of these older Americans. I wonder if the ‘migrants’ are treated better.
Don’t forget Affirmative Action.
No nursing home for me!
With no definition of what that care looks like
There will be no more care or rehab facilities at that rate
Why do dems demand that which can not be done
And how many workers does a rule pay for?
So if this is Nurses and not Nurses plus aides and we assume 24 hour staffing — then a population of 80 would need 11.6 Nurses for each 8 hour shift in a 24 hour cycle. If the ration of aides and custodial staff to nurses in 3 for every 1 nurse that that is about about 46 employees for 80 in population. Sounds heavier than most that I have been involved with but not insane.
” requiring 3.48 hours of “nursing” care or “attendant” care? “
Only 0.55 hrs are required by RN. I don’t know where the line is set for the other care. I assume it would include any attendant activities.
Still, it doesn’t require that each receives the minimum.
“There will be no more care or rehab facilities at that rate”.
It will be a jobs program for illegal aliens. “Care” will be identified as sticking their head in the door to see if the patient is upright.
Hospitals cannot find enough RN’s to staff their facilities.
So I’m sure the available RN’s are just going to run to your nursing homes!
What went to support Ukraine this year is pocket change compared to just the fraud component of Medicare/Medicaid spending. Get over yourself.
I hate to think this, or write this, but I know how bad it is in many of these facilities, and it is only going to get worse. Unless something miraculous happens.
More probable? Laws will be passed here is the USA that will be similar to what is happening in Canada - Look at their “MAID” solution. It can happen here, and it might already be in the cards.
More like sticking their head in the door and seeing if the occupant is laying on the floor.
“... requires that all nursing homes that receive Medicare and Medicaid funding provide ...”
States addicted to Federal money. I’m for letting individual states decide on their publicly funded elderly care.
The real problem though is that such sweeping and costly edicts can some with simply a wave of the pen by some bureaucrat. NO process, no discussion, no appeal, no reason, just a dictate by regulations. All thanks to a gutless congress who gives away power like bubble gum.
Because it is easy for them, they don’t have to do it or pay for it.
Having consulted in nursing homes for many years, I can say with some confidence that 3.48 hours of any kind of hands on care is unrealistic.
That's because the federal government is basically able to print money due to our reserve currency status. But soon the jig is up and we'll have to pay the piper (5-10 years).
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