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Jordan Rau, KFF Health News

Jordan Rau, KFF Health News

Jordan Rau reports on cost and quality in the American health care system with a focus on hospitals and nursing homes. He joined KFF Health News at its founding in 2009 and specializes in data journalism.

An empty wheelchair sits in the middle of a sunlit corridor of a nursing home.

Biden administration proposes new standards to boost nursing home standards

By: - September 10, 2023

The nation’s most thinly staffed nursing homes would be required to hire more workers under new rules proposed on Friday by the Biden administration, the greatest change to federal nursing home regulations in three decades. The proposed standard was prompted by the industry’s troubled performance earlier in the coronavirus pandemic, when 200,000 nursing home residents […]

An empty wheelchair sits in the middle of a sunlit corridor of a nursing home.

Study undermines Biden administration promise to boost nursing home staffing

By: - September 3, 2023

The Biden administration last year promised to establish minimum staffing levels for the nation’s roughly 15,000 nursing homes. It was the centerpiece of an agenda to overhaul an industry the government said was rife with substandard care and failures to follow federal quality rules. But a research study the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services […]