McKnight’s reported on a new research that supports an obvious conclusion. Staffing stability is a critical key component to nursing home quality. Researchers have long understood nurse turnover’s influence and impact on nursing home quality, maybe even for two decades. Still, turnover wasn’t added to Care Compare for over a decade after an overall staffing

Tell Your Members of Congress Not to Cut Hundreds of Billions from Medicaid and to Preserve the Nursing Home Staffing Rule Medicaid covers nearly half of all births in the country, and around two-thirds of nursing home stays. In 41 states that expanded the program as part of the Affordable Care Act, it also covers millions of working-class Americans with incomes

Unsafe staffing levels and turnover are major problems for the 1.3 million people who live in nursing homes. The Biden administration’s federal rule setting minimum safe standards for staffing would save 13,000 lives a year. The rules will be phased in over the next years. They require a registered nurse to be on site 24 hours

Trump fired a dozen inspectors general who monitored departments for waste, fraud, and abuse, ignoring the law that requires him to give Congress 30 days’ notice and provide good cause for the terminations and specific reasons. Most were Trump’s own appointees from his first term, put in when he purged the inspectors general more gradually

A recent study led by Professor Yong Suk Lee at the University of Notre Dame highlights the transformative potential of robotics/AI in nursing homes. The findings, based on facilities in Japan, show that integrating robots not only improves patient outcomes but also boosts employee retention, an issue the U.S. elder-care industry desperately needs to address.