‘A Piercing Wake-Up Call’: Why Senior Care Organizations Need to Prioritize Health IT

In April 2022, I was impatiently awaiting the release of an important report from the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine on improving nursing home quality for staff, residents and their families. I was eager to see the NASEM committee’s recommendations, since this was the first comprehensive study of the challenges facing nursing homes in the U.S. in 35 years. 
“This report is a piercing wake-up call for policymakers,” LeadingAge CEO Katie Smith Sloan said in a statement. “Decades of underfunding have left America’s nursing home system in desperate need of an overhaul.…