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Quality of Care A bipartisan group on the Senate Finance Committee conducted hearings on the nursing home industry’s deadly incompetence. Approximately 185,000 residents and caregivers in nursing homes died because of poor infection control throughout the pandemic. The hearing noted significant deficiencies in nursing home safety and emergency preparedness standards. Here is a link to the
Support The American Rescue Plan is wildly popular. The coronavirus relief package contains a wide range of proposals. Most help Americans still struggling with the economic fallout of the pandemic. A poll from Morning Consult says that a whopping 77% of Americans support the bill, including 59% of Republicans. That is a bipartisanship bill. It
Systemic Problems The COVID-19 pandemic has exposed a failure to protect nursing home residents and staff. As a nursing home lawyer for over 25 years, these failures were long-standing and systemic. Persistent problems with nursing home care existed for years. Often because of too few and inadequately trained frontline staff. Solutions do exist. Safe staffing, transparency,
Occupancy Declines Fox Business reported that families continue to choose home health and other options to avoid nursing homes. COVID-19 has reshaped the future of the nursing home industry. Americans rely on institutions to care for vulnerable seniors. Nursing-home use in the U.S. has been declining gradually for years. In 2019, occupancy was 80%, down
New Leadership Chiquita Brooks-LaSure would be the first Black woman to head CMS. CMS administers Medicare, Medicaid, children’s health insurance and the Affordable Care Act, better known as “Obamacare.” The programs cover more than 130 million people, from newborns to nursing home residents. Brooks-LaSure was previously deputy director at CMS responsible for insurance markets during the
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