A Future of Better Health for All is Within Reach

The recent changes in nursing home staffing, census, and the number of nursing homes operating in the U.S. raises the question of how these changes have interacted to affect the extent of understaffing during and after the pandemic and the extent to which the proposed staffing standards from CMS are currently being met. Altarum's George Miller and Corey Rhyan address this question through a review of trends in nursing home resident census and staffing levels from before the start of the pandemic through the end of 2022.

Over the last two years, the MI-SPARC program provided primary care providers with free help to implement screening, brief intervention, and referral to treatment (SBIRT) into their practices. The resources developed from this program are now available for all clinicians and support teams on a newly launched website.

Monson’s experience in long-term services and supports (LTSS) will support the LTQA member organizations that represent the full range of health care and social services delivery systems involved in provision, administration, innovation, policymaking, and advocacy for quality LTSS.