CMS Strengthens Nursing Home Oversight and Safety to Ensure Adequate Staffing
CMS Strengthens Nursing Home Oversight and Safety to Ensure Adequate Staffing
“CMS takes very seriously our responsibility to protect the safety and quality of care for our beneficiaries,” said CMS Administrator Seema Verma.
“Today CMS is taking important steps to protect nursing home residents based on potential risks revealed by new payroll-based staffing data that our Administration released. We’re deeply concerned about potential inadequacies in staffing, such as low weekend staffing levels or times when registered nurses are not onsite, and the impact that this can have on patient care.”
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CMS
PUBLISHED
November 30, 2018
SOURCE
Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. “CMS Strengthens Nursing Home Oversight and Safety to Ensure Adequate Staffing | CMS.” CMS News and Media Group, 30 Nov. 2018, www.cms.gov/newsroom/press-releases/cms-strengthens-nursing-home-oversight-and-safety-ensure-adequate-staffing.
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