Following the launch last month of the initial elements of its Nursing Home Staffing Campaign, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) on January 8, 2025 announced a Notice of Funding Opportunity (NOFO) focused on helping to recruit Registered Nurses (RNs) to work in nursing homes by offering financial incentives.
The much-anticipated financial incentive program will provide grant funding for nonprofit nursing and educational organizations to apply to become Financial Incentive Administrators that would administer financial incentives to RNs in return for working three years in a qualifying nursing home or state inspection agency.
The Financial Incentive Administrators would be responsible for distributing the funds, verifying work status of eligible RNs, and working with nursing homes and state agencies to fill vacancies.
In December, the agency unveiled the program website and the CNA Recruitment and Career Pathways page.
More details can be found by viewing the NOFO and questions about the campaign can be sent to NHSC@cms.hhs.gov.
