It’s important to do a review that considers your region and state. Identify how complaints and care deficiencies were handled last year.
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.
CMS: Calculations for nursing home inspection ratings will resume in late January
By
Danielle Brown
Dec 07, 2020
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services will resume calculating nursing homes’ health inspection ratings starting on Jan. 27, 2021, the agency announced in a memo Friday.
Facility’s non-compliant documentation practices lead to federal crackdown
By
Kimberly Marselas
May 25, 2018
Montana was hit with more than $277,000 in civil penalties after its Mental Health Nursing Care Center in Lewistown failed to meet federal documentation requirements related to mental illness care.
CMS details 5 new scenarios that trigger infection control-focused surveys
By
Danielle Brown
Jan 06, 2021
Multiple weeks with new coronavirus cases or low staffing are among the additional scenarios that will trigger a focused infection control survey at a nursing home, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid...
What genius thought nursing homes and prisoners were a good mix?
By
John O'Connor
Jan 07, 2013
It’s hardly a secret that many nursing home employees were once convicted of crimes. But facilities generally don’t accept inmates still serving time, with perhaps one notable exception
State’s nursing homes to see 33% Medicaid rate increase, exec says
By
Jessica R. Towhey
May 15, 2023
Montana nursing homes will see an approximate 33% increase in Medicaid rates phased in over two years, said one of the sector’s leading advocates, but it remains to be seen whether even that will be...
CMS to use staffing data to assess PPE needs; freezes star ratings
By
Danielle Brown
Apr 27, 2020
Providers’ staffing totals will be used to address their personal protective equipment needs during the coronavirus pandemic, according to a new memo from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services.
State says nursing home knew resident who plunged to death from third-story window had history of removing...
By
Marty Stempniak
Aug 22, 2018
A New York nursing home allegedly knew that one of its residents had a tendency to remove safety screws from windows before his deadly fall from a window.
Meet Patricia Bush, Rising Star honoree
By
Nicole Blanchard
Jul 06, 2022
“They just don’t make them like her anymore,” gushed a colleague about Patricia Bush. An administrator at Haskell County Nursing Center, Bush has gone above and beyond in the eyes of those around...