The Biden administration finalized on Monday the first-ever minimum staffing rule at nursing homes, Vice President Kamala Harris announced.
The controversial mandate requires that all nursing homes that receive Medicare and Medicaid funding provide a total of at least 3.48 hours of nursing care per resident per day, including defined periods from registered nurses and from nurse aides. That means a facility with 100 residents would need at least two or three registered nurses and at least 10 or 11 nurse aides, as well as two additional nurse staff, who could be registered nurses, licensed professional nurses or nurse aides, per shift, according to a White House fact sheet.
Plus, nursing homes must have a registered nurse onsite at all times. The mandate will be phased in, with rural communities having longer timeframes, and temporary exemptions will be available for facilities in areas with workforce shortages that demonstrate a good faith effort to hire.
The rule, which was first proposed in September and initially called for at least three hours of daily nursing care per resident, is aimed at addressing nursing homes that are chronically understaffed, which can lead to sub-standard or unsafe care, the White House said.
Even if they could…
Were like 3 years deep into a nationwide nursing shortage and even hospitals can’t get staffed up.
Biden is “creating jobs” that we literally don’t have qualified people to fill.
Which is going to lead to lots of nursing homes being forced to close, and shitty nurses always having a place to land somewhere.
You know what would help?
If Biden had fixed our student loan shit show so more people are able to afford to be nurses.
Like most of the headlines about Biden, it only sounds good if you don’t think further than the headline.
Down the road this causes more problems than it’ll fix.
Most of these positions do not require a college degree. They don’t need RN’s- a lot of these positions can be filled by high school kids. My wife and a lot of our friends in high school and college worked these jobs. My neighbor did in-home care for decades with no degree and recently chose to retire early because the pay wasn’t worth staying and she makes more money buying and selling antiques at conventions now.
How many other qualified people have been forced out of the industry due to low wages?
Your comments on Biden seem to indicate You’re either uninformed or purposefully spreading political misinformation. A quick internet search will tell you the Biden administration has forgiven $153 billion in student loans. It would be more if the Supreme Court hasn’t shut down his broader cancellation measures last year.
Is he doing everything he can? Well I’ve seen tons of proposals for other measures to cap the tuition costs or change federal lending, but afaik just about everything would require a bill to be passed by Congress. This may shock you, but Biden can to vote in either the House of Representatives or the Senate so you need to find your own representatives, find their stances, and write to them about this (or anything else you care about).
Unless you have some other proposal I haven’t heard of for executive action that could survive the supreme court?