June 5, 2024 Washington, DC – A statement from Katie Smith Sloan, president and CEO, LeadingAge, the association of nonprofit, mission-driven providers of aging services, including nursing homes, on the introduction by Senators James Lankford (R-OK) and Joe Manchin (I-WV) of the Senate Congressional Review Act resolution of disapproval to overturn the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services’ (CMS) final nursing home staffing rule:

“LeadingAge and our nonprofit and mission-driven members–many of whom have served their communities for decades and even centuries–share the goal of ensuring quality care. Mandates, as we’ve said repeatedly to Congress, to the Administration and to the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), are not the right approach to achieving it. We need real policy solutions and investments, not mandates. As part of our aggressive, multi-faceted approach, drawing on every available tool –legislative, legal, and regulatory–to both address the fundamental issue of building the long-term care workforce and halt the regulation’s implementation, we support the CRA resolution’s introduction in the Senate. We thank Senators Lankford and Manchin for their leadership on it.”