Nursing Home Staffing Standards


 

Publication Date: June 2002

Publisher: Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation

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Research Area: Health

Type: Brief

Coverage: United States

Abstract:

This policy brief describes the current federal staffing requirements and how states separately regulate staffing levels in nursing homes. It also presents data showing actual staffing levels in over half of this country's nursing homes exceed the elvels that states and the federal government require.