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medicare home health care :: Article Creator Feds Establish New Rules For Health Care Staffing And Pay After the COVID-19 pandemic exposed serious problems with the health care workforce and patient care, especially at nursing homes, some major changes are coming. This week, the federal Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services established new minimum staffing requirements for nursing homes nationwide and set new worker pay standards for home- and community-based health care services. The new rules govern long-term care provided to low-income disabled people and the elderly — funded with federal Medicaid dollars and administered by the states. One goal is to upgrade the pay and services provided by health aides that agencies send into patients' homes to help with bathing, meals, medications and the like. Many are immigrant women earning low wages, according to Jennifer Lav, a senior attorney at the National Health Law Program.