White House To Announce New Vision to Improve Nursing Home Care

3/1/22 — During the State of the Union Address on March 1, President Biden will announce nursing home reforms to ensure that:

• every nursing home provides a sufficient number of staff who are adequately trained to provide high-quality care;
• poorly performing nursing homes are held accountable for improper and unsafe care and immediately improve their services or are cut off from taxpayer dollars; and
• the public has better information about nursing home conditions so that they can find the best available options.

Noting a Government Accountability Office Report finding that, from 2013 to 2017, 82 percent of all inspected nursing homes had an infection prevention and control deficiency, the White House plan includes strengthening requirements for on-site infection preventionists.

Read the White House fact sheet.