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
The changes include the addition of two quality measures for antipsychotic medication use; raised expectations; adjusted staffing algorithms; and the expansion of on-site surveys at nursing homes across the US. "The changes in ratings reflect that CMS raised the bar for performance that should be...
CMS on Wednesday (June 29) updated its nursing home guidance on arbitration agreements, surveyors’ use of payroll-based staffing information and infection prevention staff requirements, and the agency also encouraged nursing homes to reduce the number of patients in each room. The agency tied the ...
“The Final Rule thus promises to be a nightmare not only for owners and operators of nursing homes, but also for the vulnerable residents they serve, in direct derogation of CMS’s statutory mandate,” according to the complaint,filed in the Northern District of Texas. In addition to CMS, ...
New CMS focused surveys are coming: Minimum data set compliance and staffing level assessmentsThe experts concluded that current data show that the average nurse staffing levels (for RNs, LVN/LPNs, and NAs) in nursing homes are too low in some facilities to provide high quality of care. ...
It does not offer firm dates for doing so but outlines a number of factors that local and state health officials should weigh, including adequate staffing levels and the ability to regularly test all residents and employees, theAssociated Pressreported. The agency advises that openingnursing homesto...
In October 2022, Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) made some significant changes to the Special Focus Facility (SFF) program that raise the bar for completion of the program and that increases enforcement actions for nursing homes that fail to demonstrate improvement. ...
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But high levels of COVID-19 activity in nursing homes is not a result of inadequate infection control, AHCA/NCAL maintain. “Location of a nursing home, asymptomatic spread and availability of testing – not quality ratings, infection citations or staffing – were determinin...
staffing requirements at nursing homes, at one point trying to reverse this rule in aspending billdue this week. Democrats say the requirements are necessary to ensure quality of care, while critics and industry interests say the mandate is unrealistic and will push nursing homes out of business...