Nursing Staff Requirements and the Quality of Nursing Home Care A Report to the California State Legislature

Summary: Chapters: overview of nursing homes in California; mandate for the report; sources of data; national context: California staffing standard, congressional mandates, Health Care Financing Admin. (HCFA), Institute of Medicine, Hartford Conf. Panel of Experts, & summary of current minimum nursing staff proposals; compliance with the current requirements: implementation of the new state requirement, assessing compliance, ...& summary of findings; policy considerations regarding nursing staff standards; financial considerations regarding nursing staff standards; conclusions: minimum staffing requirement, enforcement, & recruitment & retention of staff. Charts & tables. [read more]