PRESS RELEASE | May 22, 2024
LeadingAge Embarks on Aggressive Strategy to Halt Mandates, Build Long-term Care Workforce
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Contact: Lisa Sanders
lsanders@leadingage.org 202-508-9407
We’ll employ “all tools available – legislative, legal, regulatory …” says President and CEO Katie Smith Sloan
May 22, 2024 Washington, DC – Marking one month since the Biden Administration unveiled its final rule on nursing home staffing mandates, Katie Smith Sloan, president and chief executive of the leading group representing nonprofit, mission-driven providers of aging services, including nursing homes, detailed her association’s next steps:
“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.”
About LeadingAge:
We represent more than 5,400 nonprofit and mission-driven aging services providers and other organizations that touch millions of lives every day. Alongside our members and 36 partners in 41 states, we use advocacy, education, applied research, and community-building to make America a better place to grow old. Our membership encompasses the entire continuum of aging services, including skilled nursing, assisted living, memory care, affordable housing, retirement communities, adult day programs, community-based services, hospice, and home-based care. We bring together the most inventive minds in the field to lead and innovate solutions that support older adults wherever they call home. For more information visit leadingage.org.
