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Better Care Now- AFL-CIO

Just about everyone in America has a loved one in a nursing home, knows someone who works in a nursing home, or recognizes that they may need nursing home care in the future—even if just temporarily. 

But understaffed nursing homes put the health and safety of both residents and workers at risk. 

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Tell Congress: Protect Our Loved Ones. Safe Staffing Over Corporate Interests! 
 

President Biden fulfilled his promise to establish a landmark staffing standard that would help nursing home staff and residents.

But the for-profit industry and its allies in Congress are using the Congressional Review Act to not only kill the regulation, but to “salt the earth,” so that the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) can’t release staffing rules to improve nursing home care, now or in the future.

We need your help to make sure the voices of workers and the most vulnerable among us are heard. 

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IAM Healthcare Member Missy Zirups on the Importance of Staffing Standards

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Myths and Realities About Nursing Home Staffing

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Seven Myths About Nursing Home Staffing (PDF)

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Fact Sheet: Improving Care, Improving Work (PDF)

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Better Care Now Letter (PDF)

 

 

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