Posted on 02/28/2022 6:00:16 PM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden will use his State of the Union speech to launch a major overhaul of nursing home quality, including minimum staffing levels and steps to beef up inspections while continuing to keep COVID-19 at bay.
White House officials on Monday outlined more than 20 separate actions, many of them sought by advocates and opposed by the industry.
One major missing element: New sources of federal financing to pay for the ambitious upgrade.
The cornerstone of Biden’s nursing home plan is a new requirement for minimum staffing levels. He’s ordering the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services to conduct a study on staffing and publish proposed regulations within a year.
Lawmakers in Congress have been debating legislation to require minimum staffing standards for facilities that accept payment from Medicare and Medicaid, as virtually all do. The original plan was to include staffing requirements in Biden’s domestic agenda bill, but with that legislation stalled the administration seems to be shifting to using its regulatory powers to bring about changes.
Biden’s plan also calls for moving nursing homes toward private rooms for their residents, directing federal regulators to explore how to phase out living arrangements that house three or more residents in the same room.
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If you took a poll ‘staffing’ would hands down win among hospital workers. Biden is pandering to those people and their powerful unions here...
Is he choosing one particular one?
Constitution says nothing about nursing homes.
Soaring prices coming to a Nursing Home near you!
Maybe he shouldn’t have ordered all those nursing home staff to be vaxed or fired
I can see where Slow Joe would be concerned with the living conditions of the homes of the elderly.
After killing thousands of nursing home patients, now it’s election time. These people are completely evil and demented. They are liars and deceivers like the evil one they worship.
This means EVERYONE will receive Medicaid level care, and, YOU will pay for it.
Think 0bammyCare for seniors.
Death panels will be installed per location.
If you are staggering under the cost of keeping your folks in a nursing home @ $5-$10 Grand a month each, just wait until the government imposes new restrictions and minimum Staffing requirements. Next will come a new federal program to subsidize nursing home costs. And then you can watch the grift pile up.
The headline writes itself.
If you are staggering under the cost of keeping your folks in a nursing home ….
…. Wait till the feds mandate “affordable” changes.
Probably put Cuomo in charge.
In other words, desired by dilettante suburban liberal Karens to signal their virtue, and opposed by people who actually work in nursing homes every day.
I’d also be concerned about the quality of nursing homes if I was in Biden’s condition.
$9K/month not high enough for Biden? Up it some more and wipe out seniors’ savings faster? And continue to explode the national debt with Medicaid after they go broke.
lol
step 1 kill thousands of nursing home patients, by sending those with covid there
step 2 deny
step 3 come out with a plan to make nursing homes safer!
um...
unless the plan to make them safer is to NEVER elect a Democrat to ANYTHING!! this is bs
Is this really the time? And since you’ve made a mess of every adventure, do we really need to add another one to your record.
Whats he going to do? Prohibit filling them full of pandemic patients while medical ships sit empty?
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