Lawmakers Grilled For Proposed Nursing Home Reforms

>Lawmakers Grilled For Proposed Nursing Home Reforms

(Harrisburg, PA) -- Nursing home industry groups are grilling lawmakers for their proposed reforms. State lawmakers are proposing regulations that increase the minimum staff required in long-term care facilities to improve direct nursing care. However, officials with the Pennsylvania Health Care Association say these requirements would exacerbate an already existing workforce crisis in nursing homes. The reforms would reportedly require facilities to hire an additional seven-thousand workers and cost them hundred-of-millions-of-dollars. PHCA officials ask what steps did the state take to help them build the workforce pipeline and who will pay for this since providers have been struggling before the pandemic. This is one of five regulations from lawmakers which they hope to pass by the end of 2022.


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