CMS Issues Significant Updates to Improve the Safety and Quality Care for Long-Term Care Residents
CMS Issues Significant Updates to Improve the Safety and Quality Care for Long-Term Care Residents
Today, as part of the Biden-Harris Administration’s initiative to promote the safety and quality of nursing home care across the country, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) issued updates to guidance on minimum health and safety standards that Long-Term Care (LTC) facilities (often called “nursing homes”) must meet to participate in Medicare and Medicaid.
CMS also updated and developed new guidance in the State Operations Manual (SOM) to address issues that significantly affect residents of LTC facilities. The surveyors who use these resources to perform both routine and complaint-based inspections of nursing homes are responsible for determining whether facilities are complying with CMS’ requirements.
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Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services
PUBLISHED
June 29, 2022
SOURCE
“CMS Issues Significant Updates to Improve the Safety and Quality Care for Long-Term Care Residents and Calls for Reducing Room Crowding | CMS.” CMS.Gov, 29 June 2022, www.cms.gov/newsroom/press-releases/cms-issues-significant-updates-improve-safety-and-quality-care-long-term-care-residents-and-calls.
Related Resources:
- CMS: QSO Memo 22-19-NH Revised Long-Term Care Surveyor Guidance
- CMS: Technical Users’ Guide July 2022
- CMS: PBJ Policy Manual Version 2.6 (June 2022)
- CMS: State Operations Manual: Appendix PP Guidance to Surveyors of Long Term Care Facilities
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