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Workforce

Wages, training pipelines, and retention — the labor economics underneath every clinical encounter.

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• Zero-RN days: how often US nursing homes ran a day with no registered nurse on the floor

  In the CMS Payroll-Based Journal's 2025 Q2 snapshot, 5.86% of nursing-home facility-days with residents present recorded zero registered-nurse direct-care hours — 77,542 days across 5,062 facilities. The rate ranged from 27.9% in Louisiana to 0.2% in Rhode Island. Days before the federal staffing floor was rescinded, this is the baseline the country now keeps.

  2026-06-04 · 18 min

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