Focused compliance projects for your skilled nursing facility
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View ArticleCMSCG Immediate Jeopardy Series Recap
CMS Compliance Group took a look at nursing home Immediate Jeopardy situations over the past few blog entries. If you missed any of this important information for your facility, you can review all our...
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Have you signed up for the CMS Compliance Group mailing list yet? Sign up for complimentary long term care and compliance information, including recent articles on the top five survey deficiencies,...
View ArticleFQC Advanced Administrator Leadership Program
The Foundation for Quality Care will be offering an Advanced Nursing Home Administrator leadership program in October-November 2013. This program is for nursing home administrators who have completed...
View ArticleLetter: Compliance with Life Safety Code in End Stage Renal Disease Facilities
In a July 12, 2013 Survey & Certification letter (Ref: S&C: 13-47-LSC/ESRD), “Compliance with Life Safety Code (LSC) and End Stage Renal Disease (ESRD) Facilities,” the Centers for Medicare...
View ArticleCMS Maintains 8/13 Deadline for Installation of Nursing Home Automatic...
CMS issued a S&C letter dated August 16, 2013, “August 13, 2013 Deadline – Installation of Automatic Sprinkler System in Nursing Homes,” which seeks to clarify some confusion on the discussion of a...
View ArticleImpact of Federal Government Shutdown on Nursing Home Survey & Certification
In the wake of the federal government shutdown that began on October 1, 2013, CMS issued guidance to the State Agencies regarding nursing home surveys and other compliance matters. The letter,...
View ArticleFacility-wide No CPR Policies Not Allowed for Nursing Homes
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) issued a letter mandating that nursing homes may not establish or implement facility-wide no CPR policies. The letter, “Cardiopulmonary...
View ArticleLong Term Care Sprinkler Deadline Extended (Federal Register)
August 13, 2013 – the date that all LTC facilities were required to have fully automated sprinkler systems – came and went with many facilities unable to meet the deadline. On November 15, CMS issued a...
View ArticleMDS focused surveys to be implemented in 2015
In a February 13, 2015 S&C letter, “MDS / Staffing Focused Survey Updates,” CMS provided the results of its pilot study of the MDS focused survey which assessed the accuracy of MDS coding practices...
View ArticleOIG: Oregon nursing home surveyors verify all deficiency corrections
The Office of the Inspector General (OIG) released a March 2016 report, “Oregon Properly Verified Correction of Deficiencies Identified During Surveys of Nursing Homes Participating In Medicare And...
View ArticleMost cited nursing home health deficiencies 2005-2014
The newly released Nursing Home Data Compendium 2015 provides the list of most highly cited health deficiencies in nursing homes for the period of 2005-2014. The list is full of “gotcha” tags that can...
View ArticleThe new long-term care survey process is here
With November 28, 2017 right around the corner, we had been eagerly awaiting information on the new long-term care survey process. We will provide information on the CMSCG blog in a series of posts to...
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FQC Advanced Administrator Leadership Program
The Foundation for Quality Care will be offering an Advanced Nursing Home Administrator leadership program in October-November 2013. This program is for nursing home administrators who have completed...
View ArticleLetter: Compliance with Life Safety Code in End Stage Renal Disease Facilities
In a July 12, 2013 Survey & Certification letter (Ref: S&C: 13-47-LSC/ESRD), “Compliance with Life Safety Code (LSC) and End Stage Renal Disease (ESRD) Facilities,” the Centers for Medicare...
View ArticleCMS Maintains 8/13 Deadline for Installation of Nursing Home Automatic...
CMS issued a S&C letter dated August 16, 2013, “August 13, 2013 Deadline – Installation of Automatic Sprinkler System in Nursing Homes,” which seeks to clarify some confusion on the discussion of a...
View ArticleImpact of Federal Government Shutdown on Nursing Home Survey & Certification
In the wake of the federal government shutdown that began on October 1, 2013, CMS issued guidance to the State Agencies regarding nursing home surveys and other compliance matters. The letter,...
View ArticleFacility-wide No CPR Policies Not Allowed for Nursing Homes
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) issued a letter mandating that nursing homes may not establish or implement facility-wide no CPR policies. The letter, “Cardiopulmonary...
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Long Term Care Sprinkler Deadline Extended (Federal Register)
August 13, 2013 – the date that all LTC facilities were required to have fully automated sprinkler systems – came and went with many facilities unable to meet the deadline. On November 15, CMS issued a...
View ArticleMDS focused surveys to be implemented in 2015
In a February 13, 2015 S&C letter, “MDS / Staffing Focused Survey Updates,” CMS provided the results of its pilot study of the MDS focused survey which assessed the accuracy of MDS coding practices...
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