Supporters for nursing home residents are clinging to the longshot hope that the Trump administration could appeal a federal judge’s decision this week to scrap the Biden administration’s embattled facility staffing requirement.
But legal analysts and policy watchers say an appeal is unlikely, considering widespread opposition to the staffing mandate by congressional Republicans and even some Democrats.
The ruling was “a major victory for seniors and families in rural America” because it allows facilities to continue to making staffing decisions based on local needs, said Nate Schema, president and CEO of Good Samaritan, the nation’s largest nonprofit nursing home and senior living provider.
“One community might look a little different than the next community,” Schema said. So the ruling “allows us to avoid those rigid staffing quotas.”
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