LeadingAge Asks White House For Nursing Home Workforce Roundtable

LeadingAge on Thursday (Aug. 17) called on the White House to host a nursing home workforce roundtable with long-term care experts, providers, consumer representatives, labor economists and demographers to demonstrate its commitment to resolving staffing shortages when the administration releases an anxiously awaited nursing home staffing minimum proposed rule expected early this fall. Union leaders and consumer advocates have launched a campaign urging CMS to release its proposed rule on nursing home staffing minimums as soon as possible, and calling...