Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) that establishes minimum staffing requirements for nursing homes, aimed at ensuring safe and high-quality care for residents.Harris, EmilyJAMA: Journal of the American Medical Association
Today, the Centers for Medicare &Medicaid Services (CMS) is making additional ownership data including names of affiliated owners for the first time on Nursing Home Care Compare. Aggregate data on the safety, staffing, and quality for groups of nursing homes sharing ownership/operatorship is also...
The CMS has toughened the NHC 5-Star Quality Rating System for nursing homes, which provides details online to allow consumers to compare ratings for facilities within a given state. The changes include the addition of two quality measures for antipsychotic medication use; raised expectations; adju...
Today, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) launched a new online platform - the Nursing Home Resource Center - to serve as a centralized hub bringing together the latest information, guidance and data on nursing homes that is important to facilities, frontline providers, res...
CMS Administrator Seema Verma warned in an op-ed earlier this month that nursing homes restricting visitors without a reasonable health or safety reason will face citations, after the agency issued guidance telling nursing homes to again allow visitation . Beneficiary advocates applaud the move. In ...
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) published its Final Rule today to implement a minimum staffing “floor” for nursing homes in the United States, as first announced on April 22. The Final Rule, which as proposed garnered significant att
The updated visitation guidance is thanks to the more than three million doses of COVID-19 vaccines administered within nursing homes through thePharmacy Partnership for Long-term Care Program, CMS said in its announcement. Since the end of December 2020, cases among nursing home residents have ...
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The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services has released plans for improving care in nursing homes and other facilities for its beneficiaries. The plans come by way of CMS's latest contract for its Medicare Quality Improvement Organizations (QIOs). ...
two nursing homes. This could be because emergency preparedness problems are less common than fire safety or health deficiencies. That said, OIG did report that CMS did not report on the results of the yearly fire safety and emergency preparedness inspections for 42 of the sampled...