Very infantile stages, in deregulating long term care policies, which are more hindering the ability to provide nursing care, than help. Long term care has been forgotten. After COVID, the care and management of our long-term care facilities, rapidly deteriorated. I have been a nurse, for 20 years, mostly working in long term care. The discussion, regarding deregulation, must be visited, if nothing more, to shed light on a drowning industry. We are overburdened with the work expected, with the minimal staff and not replacing employees who have quit. Long term care has become mini medical-surgical units. The patients we are getting, are no longer just “nursing home” appropriate patients. They require a higher level of care, which cannot be provided, with limited staff. We also must begin to investigate the OWNERS of the large corporations, that are buying nursing homes. They are taking the money from CMS, that is allotted for patient care and misappropriating it, for personal gains. Leaving the staff, who care for the elderly, without the BASIC necessities, like: washcloths and food. There are so many regulations in place that it’s nearly impossible to deliver efficient nursing care. The paperwork has now replaced the bedside time, we get to spend with the people who need one on one, human interaction. We must begin to deregulate Long Term Care, in order to deliver the most efficient, caring, healing nursing care.