April 16, 2019      5:18 PM
Senate Finance hears bipartisan reform of nursing home financing
Some nursing homes say they can “no longer compete with fast food restaurants and local convenience stores”
A
bill aimed to increase the quality of Texas’ nursing homes was in the Senate
Finance Committee this week. Senate Bill 1050, called the Texas
Nursing Home Quality Act, by Sen. Bryan
Hughes, R-Mineola, increases funding for the state’s nursing home facilities.
Texas
nursing home care is the worst in the nation, according to the Center
for Disease Control and Prevention, due to chronic underfunding and a
high staff turnover rate.
“This
bill creates a method of finance that allows Texas to draw down federal dollars
directed to nursing home care and ties all the funding to improving quality
outcomes,” Sen. Hughes said.
By James Russell
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