Ensuring Seniors’ Access to Quality Care Act

Stricter training approvals for nursing homes

If enacted, this would tighten rules that let nursing homes and skilled nursing facilities run nursing aide training and competency programs. A facility would be barred from initial or continued approval if it had a civil money penalty of at least $12,924 and was cited for a quality-of-care deficiency. It would also bar facilities that had been subject to certain serious remedies listed in the law. These changes would apply to both Medicare and Medicaid training approvals; the excerpt gives no effective date.