Ensuring Seniors’ Access to Quality Care Act
Congress Targets Nursing Home Aide Training Approval After Quality-of-Care Penalties
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Key Points
- Congress would change when a nursing home can run its own nurse aide training and testing for Medicare and Medicaid.
- A facility could lose (or be blocked from getting) approval if it has serious quality-of-care problems tied to certain penalties or enforcement actions.
- The bill sets a specific penalty trigger: at least $12,924 plus a cited quality-of-care deficiency.
- For families, the aim is to keep training programs tied to low-quality care from being approved, which could affect staffing and care quality in nursing homes.
- For nursing homes, the rules would be more clearly spelled out across both Medicare and Medicaid so the same kinds of enforcement actions matter in each program.
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Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
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Official Title
Ensuring Seniors’ Access to Quality Care Act
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