Nursing Home Reform Act of 1987

What lessons in U.S. policymaking can be learned from the passage of the Nursing Home

Reform Act of 1987 and near-repeal in 1995? List 2 examples.

Major goal of nursing home reform act within year 1987 along with their near repeal in

year 1995 had been to improve quality of services in the nursing home.

Nursing Home Reform Act has been the part of Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of

1987 that provides guidelines for regulating nursing home care in US. Act had been intended

towards advancing nursing home residents' rights (Chapter 2 Long Term Care Policy, Past

Present and Future, 2015).

Nursing Home Reform Act (NHRA), passed in the year 1987, gives federal statutory

protection for residents of the certified nursing facilities. Before act, there had been no minimum

standard of care.

This Act in addition altered the manner states inspect nursing home facilities. States

should do unannounced surveys as well as interviews of the residents. Nursing homes, which

have been found in violation of Nursing Home Reform Act have been subject to several of the

penalties. All states have been subject to similar baseline needs for inspections in the Nursing

Home Reform Act.

List one benefit which resulted from the implementation of OBRA -87 (the Act which

contains the Nursing Home Reform Act). Please support your answer. Number of words

150 (This is a health care question)

Being culmination of fight to stop deregulation about nursing home industry, OBRA 87

was having particular and also immediate impact. Not just did law avoid drastic diminishment in
standards proposed through the Reagan Administration, this in addition led towards several

tangible changes like more rigorous needs for the direct care staff in regard to both staffing levels

and also training needs, parameters for doing nursing home inspections i.e. surveys, and also

utilization of the physical and also chemical restraints.

 Reference

Chapter 2 Long Term Care Policy, Past Present and Future. (2015, November 23rd). Retrieved

from http://samples.jbpub.com:

http://samples.jbpub.com/9780763774035/74035_CH02_5368.pdf