* A Critical Choice: Nursing home care
Lawmakers, advocates bicker over updated regulations for nursing homes: A
   care standards for nursing homes, saying some of the measures are
   care standards for nursing homes, saying some of the measures are
   the nation's nursing homes are facing mounting pressure from Congress.
   residents of nursing homes," said Richard Mollot, the executive
   residents in nursing homes.
   A vast majority of the nation's more than 15,000 nursing homes accept
   comply with the regulations in the Nursing Home Reform Law. The law
   While advocates lauded the revisions, many owners of nursing homes and
   The letters backed the stance of the nursing home industry, which also
   Renacci owned more than 20 nursing homes in Ohio before selling them in
   the May primary. "You have Washington bureaucrats telling nursing home
   dictating how something must be done in a nursing home."
   Choice, as proof of problems in many nursing homes.
   also found that 70 percent of the state's nursing homes were staffed
     * Require nursing homes to perform a baseline care assessment within
       previous regulations, nursing homes could take up to three weeks to
   "Of course, not all nursing homes are bad, but we have a serious
   who has studied the nation's nursing homes for years.
   "We have a lot of substandard nursing homes. We have complaints. There
   Advocates for nursing home residents have pushed for years for the CMS
   to come up with specific regulations for nursing homes regarding the
   number of nurses and nurse's aides needed per shift. The nursing home
   nurses. They leave it up to the nursing homes to make an assessment to
   alleviate regulatory and financial burdens on nursing home owners. Many
   said the regulations, in some cases, pull nursing home administrators
   nursing homes will face little, if any, struggle to pay for the
   the nursing home industry has given Renacci's campaign $166,400 since
   of nursing homes, that they could listen."
   financial burden and stress on nursing home owners.
   Congress] are just going along with what the for-profit nursing home