As the Biden administration marches toward some type of minimum staffing requirement for nursing homes, it’s easy for providers to feel like helpless, angry victims. Even as a proponent of acuity-based staffing standards in some form, I too am annoyed.
How can we authentically work toward nursing home reform if our efforts are based upon decades-old staffing studies that don’t acknowledge the diversity of residents, specialization of providers and caregivers, and technologies in nursing homes today?
