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Podcast: A Health Podyssey
Episode: Nursing homes have a staff turnover crisis – even before COVID-19
Description: Nursing homes are challenging places to work. As David Grabowski, a professor of health care policy at Harvard Medical School, notes in today's episode of A Health Podyssey, "we knew the nursing home system was broken before the COVID-19 pandemic."Grabowski recently co-authored two papers in the March 2021 edition of Health Affairs on the topic of nursing home staffing using a new Medicare data set (Payroll Based Journal) that spanned 2017-2019 and is a game changer for measuring quality. One article noted that Medicare's new patient-driven payment model resulted in reductions in therapy staffing in skilled nursing...