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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, Sens. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.) and Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), along with…

Nursing homes will now need to have a minimum number of front-line caregivers for the first time under a new mandate announced by the Biden administration on Monday.  The final policy, revealed by Vice President Harris, is being implemented despite strong efforts by the nursing home industry and bipartisan lawmakers to oppose it, saying a federal standard is not possible…