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The 黑料正能量 Association (AHA) and the American Health Care Association (AHCA), the largest associations representing America鈥檚 hospitals and nursing homes, respectively, sent a joint letter today to Chiquita Brooks-LaSure, Administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (鈥
Hospitals and health systems continue to face serious economic challenges relating to escalating expenses and staffing shortages. One health system met the challenge head on. Mary Marran of Care New England explains how they kept their focus on short-term economic recovery plans, while addressing鈥
In tonight鈥檚 State of the Union address, President Biden is expected to announce plans to establish new minimum staffing ratios for nursing homes.
For the first time in nearly two decades, staffing shortages replaced financial challenges as the top concern among CEOs in the American College of Healthcare Executives鈥 annual survey. In December, a Moody鈥檚 Investors Service report forecast that staffing shortages and labor costs will bring鈥
Patient-to-nurse staffing ratios are a static and ineffective tool that cannot guarantee a safe heath care environment, writes Mary Ann Fuchs, president of AHA鈥檚 American Organization for Nursing Leadership affiliate, responding to a recent op-ed in the New York Times.
The essay Nurses Deserve Better. So Do Their Patients is right to note the 鈥渁wesome鈥 impact that nurses have within our health care system and in the battle against Covid-19.
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