NPR's Steve Inskeep talks to Xavier Becerra, secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services, after the Biden Administration proposed a new national standard for staffing nursing homes.
Roughly three quarters of long-term care facilities would have to hire additional staff to meet the administration's requirements, CMS estimates.
"It's a big change in the sense that the industry hasn't had to follow particular standards," Becerra said."And it's been the wild, wild west when it comes to quality and accountability at nursing homes throughout the country. What we're simply saying is we don't want [the] wild, wild west when we send our loved ones."one of the most stressful occupations
, according to the National Library of Medicine. The profession is associated with high levels of staff turnover, absenteeism and levels of burnout. In an attempt to improve nurse retention rates and attract more people to the industry, CMS would work with private sector partners, investing over $75 million in financial incentives, such as tuition reimbursement.In an earlier description for this story, the name of the secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services was misspelled. He is Xavier Becerra, not Javier Becerra.
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