2024 CMS mandates. How will southern rural LTC facilities ever survive?

[downsouthlaff, LPN]

Im sure by now most nurses in LTC have heard the new CMS mandates set forth by the biden administration. Setting forth new minimal federal staffing requirements for all nursing homes. These proposed mandates wipe LPN/LVNs from providing meaningful cost effective nursing services to LTC/SNFs by not including them in mandated staffing hours. New requirements set forth would require every US skilled nursing facility to provide 0.55 RN hours per day, 2.45 CNA hours per resident per day, and facilities would decide whether to utlize LPN/LVNs are not.  Im sure that some facilities in northern states would be fine, but what will happen in the southern states with such a nursing shortage? LPNs in the south keep nursing homes open. Employers in more desirable areas of nursing to work in here are having a hard time finding RNs, much less trying to recruit them to LTC facilities! I think I would have a better chance of winning the lottery, before my state would be able to replace all of its LTC LPNs with RNs. Sounds like a very big mess, and mission impossible. What's everyone's thoughts on this? Legislators are taking steps to block these mandates