Ask the payment expert: As recertification surveys resume, when will they start impacting the Five Star...
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Caryn Adams
Feb 01, 2021
As recertification surveys resume, when will they start impacting the Five Star Quality rating?
PointRight launches new survey tool for skilled care facilities
Oct 24, 2012
PointRight Inc. recently launched Survey Insights, an analytics-driven tool that skilled nursing facilities can use to better prepare for inspections.
State officials didn’t verify correction of more than half of SNF deficiencies: report
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Sep 12, 2017
Health officials in Kansas failed to follow up on 52% of deficiencies identified during nursing home surveys, a federal watchdog said in a report released Monday.
North Carolina let 5% of nursing home deficiencies go unchecked
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Kimberly Marselas
Jan 24, 2018
The Department of Health and Human Services Office of Inspector General found North Carolina officials failed to confirm corrective action in about 5% of nursing home deficiency cases.
New bill would update nursing home survey process
Aug 03, 2010
The American Health Care Association Monday applauded a new bill that would seek to modernize the survey and certification system that assesses and monitors long-term care and post-acute care systems.
Ask the Nursing Expert about … the new survey process
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Amy Franklin, RN, DNS-MT, QCP-MT
Sep 06, 2017
I’m feeling a bit overwhelmed. Do you have any tips to assist with the new survey process?
Standard surveys continue to lag, with infection control a major tripwire
By
Kimberly Marselas
Oct 24, 2023
A year and a half after a federal watchdog blasted the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services over extensive delays in nursing home inspections, year-end data for fiscal year 2023 shows there has been...
EHR tool boosts geriatric assessments, trial finds
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Kristen Fischer
May 14, 2024
When a team of scientists integrated a tool into an electronic health record platform, it improved geriatric assessments and improved clinician knowledge about the evaluations, according to a report on...
60 Seconds with…
Mar 01, 2009
Anne Tumlinson Analyst, Avalere Health Medicare cost survey
CMS issuing new guidance on feeding assistants
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Haymarket Media
Aug 20, 2007
Nearly four years after the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services first published a final rule allowing nursing homes to use paid feeding assistants, the agency is adding to it.