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Comprehensive Care Nursing Home is required by statute and regulation to maintain a minimum 3 to 1 ratio of direct service staff to residents to maintain the licensure associated with the Nursing Home beds. The salary expense associated with direct service staff for the Comprehensive Care Nursing Home would most likely be classified as:
- 1. Variable cost.
- 2. Fixed cost.
- 3. Overhead costs.
- 4. Inventoriable costs.
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