Healthcare providers are struggling to decipher new approaches to reimbursement, including accountable care organizations, according to a new survey.
CMS reducing vaccine mandate compliance surveys
By
Danielle Brown
Jun 16, 2022
Inspectors for the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services will no longer check for provider compliance with the staff COVID-19 vaccine mandate during all surveys.
MDS 3.0 completion times are up, job satisfaction is down, survey shows
Oct 25, 2011
Overall job satisfaction has dropped among long-term care workers, and MDS 3.0 assessments are taking longer to complete than MDS 2.0, results of a new survey reveal.
Survey expert gives insight on common deficiencies
By
Elizabeth Newman
Jun 06, 2012
A nursing home survey expert gave providers a tip sheet to the most common deficiencies — and how to avoid them — in the first McKnight’s Super Tuesday webcast of 2012.
QIOs improve healthcare, stakeholders say
By
Haymarket Media
Jun 23, 2006
Three-fourths of major healthcare stakeholders find that quality improvement organizations (QIOs) improve healthcare, according to a recent survey.
Terrible staffing competition will worsen: survey
By
Kimberly Marselas
Dec 16, 2021
When it comes to hiring, 55% of nursing homes and senior living facilities say they are now competing with staffing agencies for the same scarce supply of workers.
Fill out a ‘McKnight’s’ survey and win one of five $50 gift cards!
Dec 11, 2020
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CDC: A third of U.S. adults use alternative medicine regularly
By
Haymarket Media
Jun 03, 2004
More than one-third of U.S. adults use alternative medicine regularly, according to a survey released by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. This could have implications for consumer preferences...
Practice sessions can pay off during surveys, expert claims
By
Elizabeth Newman
Jul 01, 2013
Directors of nursing need to lead their employees through survey practice sessions in order to achieve peak success, a long-term care expert said at the annual National Association of Directors of Nursing...
Five-Star surveys: Changed forever?
By
Spencer Blackman
Feb 08, 2021
When the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services unlocked survey ratings for the first time since April, we analysts dove into the numbers expecting big changes. But as an earlier McKnight’s article...