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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Most of nursing home staff consists of nursing assistants, which requires a 6-8 week training course. And if the number of patients each aide has to care for would be reduced, more people might become aides.
“... able to print money due to our reserve currency status”
What does “reserve currency status” mean?
I presume you mean by “the jig’s up” that we print money by borrowing it and eventually we’ll have to pay it all back with interest.
You may.
I don’t.
And I say that as some who had more than one family member in residential care at the same time at one point, two of whom had dementia.
This is NOT about better care.
If you think it is then show me a state run facility with superior care compared to a non-profit or a private facility.
Deep State doesn’t like competition.
If it can drive the non-profits and private facilities out of biz, guess who has a corner on the market.
Meanwhile, while we’re on the subject of residential care facilities...
Still wondering why, when the Trump admin relaxed regs allowing residential care facilities to refuse to take back sick CoupFlu residents from hospitals, Cuomo, Whitmer et al ordered them sent back anyway...
Inquiring minds want to know.
There is a demand for the U.S. dollar throughout the world. For example, they want the U.S. dollar in countries like Argentina and El Salvador.
Usually, when a country is "printing" money like the U.S., they will see serious inflation (like Venezuela).
But we are able to get away with it because of the worldwide demand for the U.S. dollar.
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