Fact Sheets & Letters

If nursing homes continue to gain jobs at the current, modest pace (on average 4,600 jobs per month), a potential recovery to pre-pandemic staffing levels would not take place until 2026.

An in-depth analysis on minimum nurse staffing levels by accounting and consulting firm CLA estimates it would cost billions of dollars each year to hire tens of thousands of more caregivers in America's nursing homes.

NCAL released a survey of assisted living providers highlighting how the industry is still facing a serious staffing and economic crisis.

AHCA released of a survey of nursing home providers across the U.S. highlighting how labor shortages have worsened and are forcing 6 out of 10 nursing homes to have to limit admissions.

With new COVID-19 variants emerging and flu season approaching, extending the PHE will ensure that long term care facilities have the necessary resources to continue providing quality care to our nation’s seniors.

AHCA/NCAL, along with 15 other health care organizations, sent a joint letter to U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra to request an extension of the PHE.

AHCA/NCAL writes U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra to request an extension of the Public Health Emergency declaration, so that long term care providers have the policies and resources it needs to address the ongoing pandemic.

AHCA sent a letter to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) requesting a meeting with the White House, HHS, and CMS to clarify some of the inaccuracies informing the president’s nursing home reform agenda released last week.