State Statutes

NURSING HOME STAFFING STANDARDS IN STATE STATUTES AND REGULATIONS, May 2001

This report was designed to provide information on the state statutes and regulations regarding nurse staffing standards. States have established their own staffing standards as a part of their state nursing facility licensing requirements. The information presented in this report was collected by the University of California, San Francisco, during 2000 and 2001, under a grant funded by the Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation. This study builds upon an early survey conducted by the National Citizen’s Coalition for Nursing Home Reform (NCCNHR) (1999) of state staffing standards in an effort to understand staffing policies and state variation. The entire report including its text, and tables, appears here in two parts.  You may retrieve and print the report by clicking on the links below.  The documents are in pdf format and may take a moment to download.  You will need Acrobat Reader to open the documents. Click Here to get Adobe Acrobat Reader for Free