Marking one month since the Biden Administration unveiled its final rule on nursing home staffing mandates, President and CEO Katie Smith Sloan detailed LeadingAge’s next steps in a message sent to members and to the media.

“For months prior to the April 2024 nursing home staffing mandate final rule announcement, we urged the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) to get long-term care workforce issues right. And yet, the agency has not. In fact, it is careening down a path that will have devastating consequences on older adults’ and families’ ability to access care and services.

The now-final mandates will without question impact our nonprofit, mission-driven nursing homes’ ability to provide care and services. In response to CMS’ actions, we are pursuing an aggressive, multi-faceted strategy employing all the tools available to us–legislative, legal, and regulatory–to both address the fundamental issue of building the long-term care workforce and halt the regulation’s implementation.”

More information will be shared soon.