The Senior Care Policy Briefing covers important long-term care issues by highlighting policy updates, news reports, and academic research. In this edition…
- Nursing home industry claims low profit margins and potential closures due to minimum staffing standards.
- Average total nurse staff hours per resident day falls below the necessary amount to ensure basic resident care needs are met.
- Improved awareness and prevention programs can lead to a reduction in falls, emphasizing the importance of sufficient staffing.
- GAO urges Medicaid overseers to improve efforts to recoup overpayments by addressing lenient oversight of state auditing programs.
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