Bloomberg Law
Aug. 6, 2020, 9:35 PM UTC

Medicare Urged to Improve Oversight of Nursing Home Staffing

Tony Pugh
Tony Pugh
Reporter

The Medicare agency should improve its oversight of nursing homes’ compliance with daily staffing requirements, a government watchdog agency said after it found hundreds of facilities didn’t meet mandatory levels of manpower for several weeks in 2018.

“This raises concerns that some nursing homes may not have fully met their residents’ needs in 2018,” the Health and Human Services Office of Inspector General said in a report released Thursday.

While the study began before the Covid-19 outbreak, the “pandemic reinforces the importance of adequate staffing for nursing homes, as inadequate staffing can make it more difficult for nursing homes to ...

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