The American Health Care Association (AHCA) has increased its estimates of what a staffing minimum of 4.1 hours of nursing care per resident day would cost nursing home operators and how many nurses would be needed to meet the mandate proposed by the Biden Administration last month.
AHCA now says that it will cost nursing home operators $11.3B annually to meet the proposed staffing minimum and require an additional 191,000 nurses and nurse aides to provide the 4.1 hours of care per resident each day.
In July, the association estimated the annual cost at $10B and the new nursing staff at 187K. AHCA said it is revising the estimates upward due to increased labor costs and persistent nationwide workforce shortages of nurses.
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