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The Biden administration is establishing new standards for how much time each day a nursing home resident gets direct care from a nurse or an aide.
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The new rules mean 4 out of 5 nursing homes will need more aides and nurses.
The safety rules being announced and finalized today are projected to save about 10 times more miners from catastrophic lung disease than the rules that were first proposed. These x-rays show black lung disease.
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