Contact Legislators to Oppose Staffing Mandate Bills
Legislators have introduced bills to mandate an acuity-based staffing standard derived from CMS expected direct care hours for nursing homes. Other staffing mandate bills would set minimum direct care staffing standards. Contact your legislators now to tell them about your staffing crisis and that you oppose these bills.
We know that despite best efforts to recruit, 59% of facilities have reported that they have received few to no applicants to fill their staffing needs. The proposed legislation calls for implementing unattainable staffing standards that could potentially put access to care for seniors at risk.
Your email would encourage other solutions to help nursing homes remedy the staffing crisis like improvements to the Medicaid rate, which pays the for the care for 6 in 10 nursing home residents and doesn’t currently cover the cost of this care and clinical staff workforce development initiatives.
