{"id":17471,"date":"2024-11-29T09:02:44","date_gmt":"2024-11-29T10:02:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=17471"},"modified":"2024-11-29T10:29:23","modified_gmt":"2024-11-29T10:29:23","slug":"nursing-home-industry-wants-trump-to-rescind-staffing-mandate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=17471","title":{"rendered":"Nursing Home Industry Wants Trump to Rescind Staffing Mandate"},"content":{"rendered":"
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A Biden administration rule that imposed minimum rules on nursing levels may not survive, even though many homes lack enough workers to maintain residents\u2019 care.<\/p>\n

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Covid\u2019s rampage through the country\u2019s nursing homes killed more than 172,000 residents and spurred the biggest industry reform in decades: a mandate that homes employ a minimum number of nurses.<\/p>\n

But with President-elect Donald Trump\u2019s return to the White House, the industry is ramping up pressure to kill that requirement before it takes effect, leaving thousands of residents in homes too short-staffed to provide proper care.<\/p>\n

The nursing home industry has been marshaling opposition for months among congressional Republicans \u2014 and even some Democrats \u2014 to overrule the Biden administration\u2019s mandate<\/a>. Two industry groups, the American Health Care Association and LeadingAge, have sued to overturn the regulation, and 20 Republican state attorneys general have filed their own challenge<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Consumer advocates, industry officials and independent researchers agree that the incoming administration is likely to rescind the rule, given the first Trump administration\u2019s \u201cpatients over paperwork<\/a>\u201d campaign to remove \u201cunnecessary, obsolete, or excessively burdensome health regulations on hospitals and other healthcare providers.\u201d Among other things, Mr. Trump aided the industry by easing fines against homes that had been cited for poor care<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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\u201cThe Trump administration has proven itself really eager to reverse overreaching regulations,\u201d said Linda Couch, the senior vice president for policy and advocacy at LeadingAge, which represents nonprofit elder care providers. \u201cWe think it\u2019s got a pretty good chance of being repealed, and hope so.\u201d<\/p>\n

Issued in April, the staffing regulation<\/a> requires nursing homes to have registered nurses on site around the clock \u2014 something that the industry has endorsed<\/a> \u2014 and to maintain minimum numbers of nurses and aides. Four of five homes would have to increase staffing<\/a>. The requirements would be phased in, starting in May 2026.<\/p>\n

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A Biden administration rule that imposed minimum rules on nursing levels may not survive, even though many homes lack enough workers to maintain residents\u2019 care.Covid\u2019s rampage through the country\u2019s nursing homes killed more than 172,000 residents and spurred the biggest industry reform in decades: a mandate that homes employ a minimum number of nurses.But with President-elect Donald Trump\u2019s return to the White House, the industry is ramping up pressure to kill that requirement before it takes effect, leaving thousands of residents in homes too short-staffed to provide proper care.The nursing home industry has been marshaling opposition for months among congressional Republicans \u2014 and even some Democrats \u2014 to overrule the Biden administration\u2019s mandate. Two industry groups, the American Health Care Association and LeadingAge, have sued to overturn the regulation, and 20 Republican state attorneys general have filed their own challenge.Consumer advocates, industry officials and independent researchers agree that the incoming administration is likely to rescind the rule, given the first Trump administration\u2019s \u201cpatients over paperwork\u201d campaign to remove \u201cunnecessary, obsolete, or excessively burdensome health regulations on hospitals and other healthcare providers.\u201d Among other things, Mr. Trump aided the industry by easing fines against homes that had been cited for poor care.\u201cThe Trump administration has proven itself really eager to reverse overreaching regulations,\u201d said Linda Couch, the senior vice president for policy and advocacy at LeadingAge, which represents nonprofit elder care providers. \u201cWe think it\u2019s got a pretty good chance of being repealed, and hope so.\u201dIssued in April, the staffing regulation requires nursing homes to have registered nurses on site around the clock \u2014 something that the industry has endorsed \u2014 and to maintain minimum numbers of nurses and aides. Four of five homes would have to increase staffing. The requirements would be phased in, starting in May 2026.We are having trouble retrieving the article content.Please enable JavaScript in your browser settings.Thank you for your patience while we verify access. If you are in Reader mode please exit and\u00a0log into\u00a0your Times account, or\u00a0subscribe\u00a0for all of The Times.Thank you for your patience while we verify access.Already a subscriber?\u00a0Log in.Want all of The Times?\u00a0Subscribe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":17473,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17471","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17471","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17471"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17471\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17474,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17471\/revisions\/17474"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/17473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17471"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17471"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17471"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}