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The Biden administration released final rules this week on minimum staffing levels, but facilities here will have 2 to 3 years to staff up at a time when recruiting and retaining workers has been a challenge.
Critics say the minimum staffing levels are unrealistic and an unfunded mandate that will further burden the state's nursing homes, many of which are at risk of closing or downsizing because of worker shortages.
Critics say the minimum staffing levels are unrealistic and an unfunded mandate that will further burden the state's nursing homes, many of which are at risk of closing or downsizing because of worker shortages.
That's down from 90 percent of residents in Maine nursing homes who got a COVID vaccine a year ago.
Persistent and growing Medicaid funding gaps have expanded to $96 million dollars, igniting fears of facility closures in the near future