[01/18/22]
Posted on January 18, 2022 in Long-Term Care, Home Health & Hospice
Published by: Hall Render
Amidst a nationwide nursing and skilled nursing facility staffing crisis, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (“CMS”) announced that additional information regarding nursing home staff numbers will be added to the January 2022 CMS Care Compare website. The staffing data will impact the Five-Star Quality Rating calculations in the middle of 2022. Skilled... READ MORE
Tags: cms, five star, PBJ, staff turnover, staffing, weekend staff
[10/11/19]
Posted on October 11, 2019 in Long-Term Care, Home Health & Hospice
Published by: Hall Render
Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (“CMS”) is revising its Nursing Home Compare Five-Star Quality Rating System to add a red alert icon to a skilled nursing facility’s profile if the facility has had a high-level abuse citation and/or repeat abuse citations. Changes to CMS Nursing Home Compare Website On October 7, 2019, CMS... READ MORE
Tags: abuse, ABUSE AND NEGLECT, citations, DEFINITION OF ABUSE, F223, F224, F600, F602, F603, five star, long term care, neglect, nursing home, nursing home compare, POST ACUTE, POST ACUTE CARE, SCOPE/SEVERITY, SKILLED NURSING, survey
[03/13/19]
Posted on March 13, 2019 in Long-Term Care, Home Health & Hospice
Published by: Hall Render
On March 5, 2019, the Center for Clinical Standards and Quality/Survey & Certification Group released a memorandum titled “April 2019 Improvements to Nursing Home Compare and the Five-Star Rating System” (“Memorandum”). In the Memorandum, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (“CMS”) announced the end of the freeze on health inspection star ratings and added quality... READ MORE
Tags: acute care, citations, cms, CMS-2567, compliance, DEFICIENCIES, deficiency, five star, long term care, nursing home, POST ACUTE CARE, SKILLED NURSING, State survey agency, survey, surveyors
[02/12/15]
Posted on February 12, 2015 in Long-Term Care, Home Health & Hospice
Written by: Bufford, David W.
On February 12, CMS hosted an Open Door Forum on the upcoming changes to the Nursing Home Compare Five-Star rating system. These changes will be effective on February 20th. Nursing facilities will be able to privately view their revised ratings by mid-morning on Friday, February 13, via their MDS portal login. The updated scoring system may... READ MORE
Tags: bufford, cms, compare, five star, home, jent, long term care, mds, nf, nursing, quality, selby, snf, staffing
[08/05/13]
Posted on August 5, 2013 in Long-Term Care, Home Health & Hospice
Written by: Bufford, David W.
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (“CMS”) has rated nursing facilities since 2009 for three areas of performance: Health Inspections, Staffing, and Quality Measures. From 2009 through 2011, more than 40% saw an improvement in overall rating, while only around 27% had a most recent rating that was lower than the first. READ MORE
Tags: bufford, cms, five star, jent, Long-Term Care, nursing home compare, quality, selby
[08/03/12]
Posted on August 3, 2012 in Long-Term Care, Home Health & Hospice
Written by: Bufford, David W.
As part of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) ongoing program to reduce the rate of anti-psychotic use in nursing facilities, the recent changes to the Nursing Home Compare (NHC) website included reports of the usage rates of anti-psychotics in a facility’s score. However, there is a discrepancy between the methodologies utilized... READ MORE
Tags: antipsychotic, bufford, cms, five star, jent, long term care, mds 3.0, Medicaid/Medicare Enrollment and Regulatory Compliance, nhc, nursing home compare, selby
