OSHA’s move to make COVID standards permanent met with skepticism from long-term care industry groups
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Kathleen Steele Gaivin
Jan 05, 2023
The final version of the Occupational Health and Safety Administration’s rule meant to protect healthcare workers from COVID-19 has reached the White House Office of Management and Budget for review...
Price of proposed nursing home staffing mandate? Try $11.3B a year, new AHCA report finds
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Kathleen Steele Gaivin
Dec 16, 2022
The American Health Care Association Thursday released an updated report from accounting and consulting firm CliftonLarsonAllen LLP detailing the costs of a potential federal staffing mandate for America’s...
Minimum staffing levels would cost nursing homes $10 billion a year: report
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Kathleen Steele Gaivin
Jul 20, 2022
The federal government’s proposed minimum staffing requirements for nursing homes could cost the industry $10 billion a year because tens of thousands of additional caregivers would need to be hired,...
Senators re-introduce legislation to improve vetting, training of caregivers in nursing homes
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Kathleen Steele Gaivin
Jun 15, 2022
Sens. Mark R. Warner (D-VA) and Tim Scott (R-SC) re-introduced legislation Monday designed to help nursing homes improve their vetting and training of caregivers to help ensure resident safety.
Long-term care leaders urge White House to intervene in anticompetitive staffing agency practices
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Kathleen Steele Gaivin
Jan 27, 2022
Leaders from the country’s largest long-term care associations on Tuesday asked White House COVID-19 Response Team Coordinator Jeffrey Zients for “assistance with an anticompetitive practice with certain...
‘Break that cycle’ of low nursing home reimbursement, wages, Collins says
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Kathleen Steele Gaivin
May 24, 2021
Long-term care advocates received some encouragement from Thursday’s hearing of the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor & Pensions Committee’s Primary Health and Retirement Security subcommittee....