Last week, the Biden Administration announced the Nursing Home Minimum Staffing Final Rule—a decision that demands our immediate attention. This one-size-fits-all mandate from the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services threatens to deepen the workforce crisis in long term care, jeopardizing access to care for our seniors. With bipartisan opposition from lawmakers and widespread concern among health care leaders and policy experts nationwide, the time to act swiftly and decisively is now.
Your Members of Congress need to hear from you as they consider the bipartisan Protecting America’s Seniors’ Access to Care Act (S. 3410/H.R. 7513), which would prohibit the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Secretary from finalizing the proposed nursing home staffing rule. Join us in our efforts to safeguard long term care facilities nationwide from involuntary closures.