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.”