{"id":11149,"date":"2024-06-11T15:53:52","date_gmt":"2024-06-11T15:53:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/?p=11149"},"modified":"2024-06-11T16:14:20","modified_gmt":"2024-06-11T16:14:20","slug":"bidens-new-staffing-requirements-put-most-illinois-nursing-homes-in-peril","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/?p=11149","title":{"rendered":"Biden\u2019s New Staffing Requirements Put Most Illinois Nursing Homes in Peril"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This post originally appeared at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wisconsinrightnow.com\/bidens-new-staffing-requirements-put-most-illinois-nursing-homes-in-peril\/\">https:\/\/www.wisconsinrightnow.com\/bidens-new-staffing-requirements-put-most-illinois-nursing-homes-in-peril\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\" src=\"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/pjimage-2021-04-08T163057.181.jpg\" class=\"attachment-post-thumbnail size-post-thumbnail wp-post-image\" alt=\"Report Clearing Biden Biden Approval Rating Americore Biden Acknowledge Hamas Biden Tells Israel Not to Occupy Gaza Biden impeachment Supreme Court Strikes Down Biden\u2019s Student Loan Cancellation\" title=\"MPS Finances\" \/><\/p>\n<p>An industry group says the Biden administration\u2019s new staffing regulations for long-term care facilities are unrealistic.<\/p>\n<p>The mandate requires that all nursing homes that receive Medicare and Medicaid funding provide a total of at least 3.48 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Plus, nursing homes must have a registered nurse onsite at all times.<\/p>\n<p>Research by SeniorLiving.org <a href=\"https:\/\/www.seniorliving.org\/nursing-homes\/staffing-mandates\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">shows<\/a> 82%, or nearly 12,000 facilities in the U.S., will need to hire staff or face being shut down.<\/p>\n<p>Spokesperson Corie Wagner said Illinois is home to the fifth highest number of understaffed nursing homes in the country.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf we were to apply the new policies and new standards to nursing homes in Illinois today, 84% of facilities would need more staff, and that is really significant,\u201d said Wagner.<\/p>\n<p>The mandate will be phased in over three years, with rural communities having up to five years.<\/p>\n<p>Nursing home operators strongly objected to the minimum staffing proposal in September, saying they already struggle to fill open positions.<\/p>\n<p>The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services in September announced a $75 million campaign to increase the number of nurses in nursing homes.<\/p>\n<p>Nearly 1.2 million residents live in Medicare- and Medicaid-certified, long-term care facilities, but Wagner said that number is expected to increase.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s called the Silver Tsunami, so more Americans are aged 65 or older than ever,\u201d said Wagner. \u201cIt&#8217;s one of the largest segments of our population but the infrastructure we have is not keeping up with our population shift.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>A resolution aimed at overturning Biden\u2019s nursing home staffing mandate has a legitimate chance to pass the U.S. Senate.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This post originally appeared at https:\/\/www.wisconsinrightnow.com\/bidens-new-staffing-requirements-put-most-illinois-nursing-homes-in-peril\/ An industry group says the Biden administration\u2019s new staffing&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":871,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11149","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-wi-right-now"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11149","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11149"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11149\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11151,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11149\/revisions\/11151"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/871"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11149"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11149"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11149"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}