In April 2019, CMS began enforcing stricter standards for the Five-Star Quality system, its consumer-facing nursing home ratings system. Our Co-Founder and Chief Nursing Officer, Chris Caulfield, weighs in on the impact these standards will have on staffing in the post-acute setting.
It’s clear that if nursing facilities want to score high on their staffing domain, they will need to keep their RN staffing levels as level as possible. In 2020, it’s expected that nursing facilities will increasingly push to staff more RNs in order to maintain adequate ratings.
Read Chris’s full article here.