Lawmakers press nursing home chains on corporate spending amid staffing rule fight

Lawmakers press nursing home chains on corporate spending amid staffing rule fight 
The Hill; by Nathaniel Weixel; 5/6/24
Congressional Democrats demanded information about the corporate spending by the operators of three of the country’s largest public, for-profit nursing homes, after the companies said they can’t afford the Biden administration’s new minimum staffing threshold. In letters sent to the companies Sunday, ... [they] pressed for information about buyouts, dividends, and salaries to executives and shareholders. The lawmakers aim to contrast that with the salaries for nurses and nursing aides, amid widespread industry opposition to the new staffing requirements because they are too costly.