The Nursing Home Crisis: Prognosis Guarded

On February 28, 2022, the White House released a detailed “Fact Sheet” replete with plans to “improve the safety and quality of nursing home care, hold nursing homes accountable for the care they provide, and make the quality of care and facility ownership more transparent.”1 The proposed reforms were further highlighted during the State of the Uni on Address wherein President Biden noted that “Medicare is going to set higher standards for nursing homes and make sure your loved ones get the care they deserve and expect.”2 The hoped for reforms are intent on ensuring that “every nursing home provides a sufficient number of staff who are a dequately trained to provide high-quality care.”1 The new paradigm will also seek to ensure that “poorly performing nursing homes are held accountable for improper and unsafe care and immediately improve their services or are cut off from taxpayer dollars.”1 Concurrent efforts will be undertak en to ensure that “the public has better information about nursing home conditions so that they can find the best available options.”1 In this Commentary we review the newly released nursing home reform proposal and discuss the likelihood of the consummation thereof.
Source: The American Journal of Medicine - Category: General Medicine Authors: Tags: Commentary Source Type: research