There are currently approximately 15,500 Skilled Nursing Facilities (SNFs) in the US providing care to approximately 1.5 million Americans at an annual cost of approximately $175 billion. Research has for decades demonstrated SNF care quality lags - made tragically evident by the ongoing COVID pandemic. As MedPAC termed in its recent March report, the pandemic's effects on SNF patients have been “devastating.” Dedicated podcast listeners may recall I’ve discussed SNF care quality, for example the long standing abusive use of antipsychotics as chemical restraints in December 2012, again in February 2018 when I noted in testimony before the Congress in 2007 the FDA's Dr.
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There are currently approximately 15,500 Skilled Nursing Facilities (SNFs) in the US providing care to approximately 1.5 million Americans at an annual cost of approximately $175 billion. Research has for decades demonstrated SNF care quality lags - made tragically evident by the ongoing COVID pandemic. As MedPAC termed in its recent March report, the pandemic's effects on SNF patients have been “devastating.” Dedicated podcast listeners may recall I’ve discussed SNF care quality, for example the long standing abusive use of antipsychotics as chemical restraints in December 2012, again in February 2018 when I noted in testimony before the Congress in 2007 the FDA's Dr.