NPR's Steve Inskeep talks to Xavier Becerra, secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services, after the Biden Administration proposed a new national standard for staffing nursing homes.
Della Lilley visits with her mother, 89-year old Betty Whiteman at a nursing home during the COVID-19 pandemic.address, President Joe Biden made a promise to"protect seniors' lives." And he's following through on that promise with his latest push to ensure that nursing homes, serving 1.2 million seniors, are sufficiently staffed around the clock.
Since the start of the pandemic, more than 200,000 residents and staff in long-term care facilities have died because of COVID-19.Roughly three quarters of long-term care facilities would have to hire additional staff to meet the administration's requirements, CMS estimates.
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