Panel endorses quality measures of palliative and end-of-life care
Feb 16, 2012
The National Quality Forum voted to endorse 14 quality measures regarding palliative and end-of-life care for patients and their families. The quality measures focus on areas of care including pain management,...
Nursing homes announce campaign to lessen poor outcomes, decrease employee turnover
By
John Hall
May 08, 2015
Increasing staff stability, adopting a customer satisfaction questionnaire, reducing unintended healthcare outcomes, reducing hospital readmissions, improving discharges to the community, and adopting...
CMS allots $30M for new quality measures
By
Marty Stempniak
Mar 07, 2018
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services is asking skilled nursing facilities and other providers to help develop better quality measures — and the agency is earmarking $30 million to sweeten the...
New tool to track quality measures in development, CMS says
By
Nov 20, 2017
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services announced the development of a new tool Monday to provide “improved visibility” into the quality measures the agency creates.
Nursing homes trail hospitals in quality improvement, AHRQ report shows
By
Tim Mullaney
May 19, 2014
About 60% of nursing home quality measures have been showing significant year-to-year improvement, but hospitals have been improving more quickly, according to the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality.
CMS budget defines nursing home quality targets, requests an additional $50 million for surveys
By
Tim Mullaney
Mar 12, 2014
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services’ proposed budget for fiscal year 2015 requests additional funds for survey activities and lists the agency’s targets for nursing home quality measures.
A good first step but more to do with MDS 3.0
By
Leah Klusch, RN, BSN, FACHCA
Mar 07, 2012
It was a long first day, but there was tremendous value and everyone who is here has learned what the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services’ positions are with the April updates and some of the...
A whole new world: 15% growth in post-acute care among 30-year nursing home industry changes
By
Alicia Lasek
Feb 11, 2020
The population of residents served by nursing homes has undergone dramatic changes since the call for an overhaul in 1987, a recent study shows.
Current quality measures are unfair to providers serving economically disadvantaged populations, National...
By
Tim Mullaney
Apr 30, 2014
Nursing homes and other healthcare providers face reduced reimbursements from government programs if they serve economically disadvantaged patients, according to a recent National Quality Forum report....
Hospital admission rates show need for new nursing home quality measure , OIG and CMS say
By
Tim Mullaney
Nov 20, 2013
One in four nursing home residents on Medicare was hospitalized in 2011, costing the program $14.3 billion, according to a new report from the Department of Health and Human Services Office of Inspector...