Last week, the Biden administration announced several nursing home reforms that will improve staffing and accountability at nursing homes throughout the country. Advocates are calling these the most significant reforms in decades.
As part of Biden’s plan, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) has updated a guidance on minimum health and safety standards that long-term care facilities must meet to participate in Medicare and Medicaid. The guidance specifically addresses nursing home staffing concerns.
“As the COVID-19 pandemic highlighted, we have a pressing moral responsibility to ensure that residents of long-term care facilities are treated with the respect and dignity they deserve,” CMS Administrator Chiquita Brooks-LaSure said in the announcement. “CMS is proud to be leading President Biden’s initiative to improve the safety and quality of care in the nation’s nursing homes,
and this set of improvements is our next step toward that goal.”
Proposals are called the “Most Significant Reforms in Nursing Homes in Decades”
