A new set of regulations requiring the use of enhanced barrier precautions for many nursing home patients has left providers scrambling to understand the rationale behind some standards and grappling with the potential costs, according to callers on a Tuesday Open Door Forum.
CMS officials have delivered an early gift to help providers like you map out where they should focus their compliance efforts not just for 2024, but for 2025 as well.
Officials with CMS Thursday defended their minimum staffing proposal for nursing homes as “balanced and achievable,” and provided more details on a coming program to build a pipeline of direct care staff.