Dive Brief:
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Contractors are lining up for jobs in Florida now that the state has lifted a 14-year-old ban on the construction of nursing homes.
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The Florida Agency for Health Care Administration approved 22 new nursing homes and the expansion of 11 others, worth $430 million.
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It will also fill what some have called a desperate need for more beds for the state’s aging residents.
Dive Insight:
The lifting of the 2001 moratorium, which was enacted in response to what some legislators believed was an out-of-control Medicaid budget, will revive an industry that has put expansion plans on hold for more than a decade. In turn, the effort is expected to create hundreds of temporary construction jobs.