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Biden Administration sets higher staffing mandates. Most nursing homes don’t meet them (kffhealthnews.org)

submitted 6 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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The Biden administration finalized nursing home staffing rules Monday that will require thousands of them to hire more nurses and aides — while giving them years to do so.

The new rules from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services are the most substantial changes to federal oversight of the nation’s roughly 15,000 nursing homes in more than three decades. But they are less stringent than what patient advocates said was needed to provide high-quality care.

Spurred by disproportionate deaths from covid-19 in long-term care facilities, the rules aim to address perennially sparse staffing that can be a root cause of missed diagnoses, severe bedsores, and frequent falls.

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The rules primarily address staffing levels for three types of nursing home workers. Registered nurses, or RNs, are the most skilled and responsible for guiding overall care and setting treatment plans. Licensed practical nurses, sometimes called licensed vocational nurses, work under the direction of RNs and perform routine medical care such as taking vital signs. Certified nursing assistants are supposed to be the most plentiful and help residents with daily activities like going to the bathroom, getting dressed, and eating.

While the industry has increased wages by 27% since February 2020, homes say they are still struggling to compete against better-paying work for nurses at hospitals and at retail shops and restaurants for aides. On average, nursing home RNs earn $40 an hour, licensed practical nurses make $31 an hour, and nursing assistants are paid $19 an hour, according to the most recent data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics.

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 6 months ago (1 children)

My old job paid me $18 an hour and paid my "boss" $12 an hour for me. I'm an independent contractor so my boss is my boss in nothing but a courtesy title. Yet he's making almost as much off my work as I am. I suggested The client hire me directly, but the stupid laws in my country don't allow that and favor the corporations and employers.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I wonder if there's any way you could start a company and hire yourself out through it. Those extra '12 dollars' would go toward the company coffers which you have access to. At least in the US a corporation is it's own person so you could totally own it and hire yourself out through it.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I do have my own company, which is how I used to be a contractor and not an employee. That's how they guy used to hire people to get away with not paying benefits. And where I live the government will defend a corporation's non compete, so I can't be hired directly and cut that guy out.

So instead I said fuck it and ended up just becoming an employee elsewhere, but now at least I get union, benefits. Pension, etc. So I'm much better off

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago

Fair enough