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Question

"Hospitals in south Florida have inadequate nursing staffing contributing to worse patient outcomes and decreased Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) reimbursement. Higher nurse to patient ratio is associated with poorer patient outcomes including longer length of hospital stay, higher rates of readmissions, increased rates of falls and hospital acquired infections (HAIs), and lower patient satisfaction (McHugh et al., 2021). Increasing nurse availability to their patients, which occurs with lower nurse-to-patient ratios, has been linked to higher survival rates for hospitalized patients (Bartmess et al., 2021). Each one patient added to a nurse's workload is associated with a 7% increase in risk-adjusted mortality following general surgery (Aiken et al., 2018)."

Discuss the accuracy of this paragraph and explain why it is important to address these mentioned problems and provide solutions to this issue of healthcare.