“We are in full agreement with the arguments made” in suit filed by the American Health Care Association.

Advancing the aggressive, multi-faceted strategy announced May 22, president and CEO Katie Smith Sloan on May 24 told members that LeadingAge intends to join the American Health Care Association lawsuit against the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS).

“Mandates, as we’ve said repeatedly to Congress, to the Administration and to HHS, are not the right approach to achieving the shared goal of ensuring older adults’ and families’ access to quality long-term care,” Sloan said. “They will without question impact our nonprofit, mission-driven nursing homes’ ability to provide care and services. We are committed to using every tool available to us—legislative, legal, and regulatory—to both address the fundamental issue of building the long-term care workforce and halt implementation of CMS’s final staffing rule.”