In a March 13, 2023 letter to the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) Administrator Chiquita Brooks-LaSure, 113 members of Congress urged CMS to propose strong mandatory minimum staffing standards in the proposed Fiscal Year 2024 Medicare payment rule.

Hear from a nursing home worker and resident about what it’s like to work and live in a nursing home without adequate staff.

A new booklet as a part of the Avoiding Drugs as Chemical Restraints campaign provides information and tips on having clear communication with long-term care providers, ensuring that resident needs are met, how to provide nonpharmacological interventions, what to do if an antipsychotic drug has been prescribed, and residents’ rights regarding antipsychotic drugs.

Nursing home residents need your help! Contact your members of Congress today and tell them to stand with nursing home residents and include nursing home provisions in an end of year appropriations bill.

Nursing homes have been telling Members of Congress why they can’t provide quality care and hire staff.  Your Members need to hear from YOU to say “Yes, they can” and to support policies that will hold the nursing homes accountable.

Get our detailed model responses to submit to the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services regarding a minimum staffing standard in nursing homes.

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A provision to require at least one registered nurse 24 hours a day has been added to the four critical provisions included in the most recent version of the Build Back Better Act.  Contact your members of Congress to ensure all provisions will be included.

Congress has heard your voice! Important nursing home provisions were included in the most recent version of the Build Back Better Act.  However, the inclusion of the provisions in the final bill is not ensured.