A joint Statement from the Center for Medicare Advocacy and the Long Term Care Community CoalitionBackground. Substandard care and insufficient staffing are longstanding problems in too many nursing homes across … [Read more...] about Medical Loss Ratios for Nursing Homes: Protecting Residents and Public Funds
SNF Staffing
Center for Medicare Advocacy Co-Authors Case Study Journal Article on Nurse Staffing Litigation in Arkansas
Charlene Harrington, professor emerita at the University of California San Francisco, and Center for Medicare Advocacy Senior Policy Attorney Toby S. Edelman have written an analysis of the class action lawsuit against twelve Golden Living nursing … [Read more...] about Center for Medicare Advocacy Co-Authors Case Study Journal Article on Nurse Staffing Litigation in Arkansas
The New York Times Shows Nursing Homes Are Not Meeting Staffing Requirements
______________The front page of The New York Times last Sunday—July 8, 2018—featured an article on nursing home staffing. “’It’s Almost Like a Ghost Town.’ Most Nursing Homes … [Read more...] about The New York Times Shows Nursing Homes Are Not Meeting Staffing Requirements
Nursing Home Roundup
Nurse Staffing in Nursing Homes: CMS Transition to Payroll-Based Journal Staffing Data on Nursing Home Compare Will Provide Better Information for the PublicBeginning in April 2018, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) will … [Read more...] about Nursing Home Roundup
Lawsuit Challenging Chronic SNF Understaffing Settled for $72 Million
A lawsuit by former residents at 12 Arkansas nursing facilities owned by Golden Living alleged that the facilities were chronically understaffed between December 2006 and July 2009, in violation of the facilities’ admission agreement, the … [Read more...] about Lawsuit Challenging Chronic SNF Understaffing Settled for $72 Million
New LTCCC Issue Alert: Nursing Home Staffing Requirements
The Long Term Care Community Coalition (LTCCC), in partnership with the Center for Medicare Advocacy, publishes monthly issue alerts on the rights of nursing home residents. These issue alerts focus on specific standards of care that nursing homes … [Read more...] about New LTCCC Issue Alert: Nursing Home Staffing Requirements
Mandatory Nurse Staffing Levels
Mandating specific levels of direct care nursing staff would seem to be a straightforward method to improve staffing in nursing facilities. If more nursing staff are needed, why not simply require facilities to employ more nurses? The … [Read more...] about Mandatory Nurse Staffing Levels
Federal Initiatives that May Affect Nurse Staffing Levels
This project has produced a series of short papers evaluating various state approaches to improving nurse staffing levels at nursing facilities. The papers have addressed state-mandated nurse staffing levels, wage pass-throughs, increasing … [Read more...] about Federal Initiatives that May Affect Nurse Staffing Levels
Staffing Requirements: The Revised Requirements of Participation
On October 4, 2016, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) published revised Requirements of Participation (RoP) for skilled nursing facilities (Medicare) and nursing facilities (Medicaid).[1] Although the substantive standards … [Read more...] about Staffing Requirements: The Revised Requirements of Participation
Don’t be Fooled by the Federal Nursing Home Five-Star Quality Rating System
In 2014, The New York Times reported that nursing facilities were gaming the Five-Star Quality Rating System on Nursing Home Compare and that “even nursing homes with a history of poor care rate highly in the areas that rely on self-reported … [Read more...] about Don’t be Fooled by the Federal Nursing Home Five-Star Quality Rating System