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Nursing-home regulation would pave way to better care | Commentary
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Handling of PA nursing homes merits probe | News, Sports, Jobs
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Apr 8, 2021
One year ago, the COVID-19 pandemic was taking direct aim and we were scrambling to avoid being struck.
Almost immediately, it seemed, many nursing homes, including in our area, were under siege with not only cases of the coronavirus but soon also deaths.
Trying to get information for any specific nursing home in Pennsylvania was difficult at first, with the state Department of Health initially saying the data was too convoluted to make public and later citing a disease privacy law that was decades old.
It wasn’t until a federal regulatory change mandating long-term care facilities to report cases to federal officials and notify residents and families that the state finally released the list in May, two months into the pandemic.
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Efforts to reform nursing home care have drawn the attention of lawmakers at both the state and federal levels.
U.S. Sens. Pat Toomey, R-Zionsville, and Robert Casey, D-Scranton, have joined in a bipartisan effort to enhance accountability among the nation’s poorest performing nursing homes.
The Nursing Home Reform Modernization Act of 2021 would ensure more facilities that have consistently failed to meet federal safety and care requirements can receive additional oversight and enforcement as well as technical assistance and educational programming.
“It’s one thing to put an under-performing nursing home on a list and leave it at that. It’s quite another to put that nursing home on a list and ensure the providers, workers and residents receive the support they need to improve and provide high-quality care. The Nursing Home Reform Modernization Act of 2021 will do that,” Zach Shamberg, president and CEO of the Pennsylvania Health Care Association
Toomey circulates letter raising alarm about nursing homes, joins Casey oversight bill
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