Abstract

Nursing facilities (NFs) have historically struggled to maintain adequate nurse staffing. We used PBJ data linked with other publicly available sources and conducted stakeholder interviews to understand nurse staffing between 2019 and 2020. We found large declines in the population of NF residents and in staffing hours. Measured in hours per resident day (HPRD) to account for the size of the NF resident population, there were slight increases in staffing. Staffing was nonetheless a major challenge for NFs because they required increased staffing due to the impact of the pandemic. NFs in higher quartiles of percentage of minority residents lost nurse staffing HPRD relative to NFs in the lowest quartile of minority residents. Stakeholders explained that NFs with more minority residents were likely to employ staff who live in more vulnerable communities with a greater concentration of minorities, who were more impacted by COVID.

Details

Title
THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC MAY HAVE EXACERBATED NURSE STAFFING DISPARITIES IN NURSING FACILITIES
Author
Porter, Kristie 1 ; Gasdaska, Angela 2 ; Squillace, Marie 3 ; Dey, Judith 4 ; Oliviera, Iara 4 ; Feng, Zhanlian 2 ; Segelman, Micah 5 

 RTI International , Durham, North Carolina , United States 
 RTI International, Research Triangle Park, North Carolina, United States 
 ASPE , Washington, District of Columbia , United States 
 Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation , Washington, District of Columbia , United States 
 Research Triangle Institute , Washington, District of Columbia , United States 
Pages
334-334
Publication year
2022
Publication date
Nov 2022
Publisher
Oxford University Press
e-ISSN
23995300
Source type
Scholarly Journal
Language of publication
English
ProQuest document ID
3198245202
Copyright
© The Author(s) 2022. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of The Gerontological Society of America. This work is published under http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (the “License”). Notwithstanding the ProQuest Terms and Conditions, you may use this content in accordance with the terms of the License.