PUBLISHED: June 2023
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A comprehensive report prepared under contract to CMS by ABT Associates summarizes results from a Nursing Home Staffing Study including research activities between May and December of 2022.  The report presents options for minimum nurse staffing requirements for consideration by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services to prepare a minimum staffing regulation.

This study was posted in error by CMS, and discovered by KFF Health News and offers a rare insight into the deliberations and considerations used by CMS in constructing Rules of Participation.  Due to the controversial nature of a minimum staffing rule, the industry and advocates interpreted the findings in this report in various ways.

“Nursing Home Staffing Study: Comprehensive Report. ”ABT Associates, Jun. 2023,  https://kffhealthnews.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/08/Abt-Associates-CMS-NH-Staffing-Study_Final-Report_-Apndx_June_2023.pdf