The guidance most notably removes the Focused Concern Surveys for the year and reallocates the number of Health Comparative Surveys conducted in each state.

It is unclear at this time when the website will be next updated.

LeadingAge National is continuing its efforts to improve the nursing home surveillance process and would appreciate any information facilities are willing to share about their recent survey experience.

Effective Dec. 30^th, the definition of “up to date” with COVID-19 vaccination for NHSN weekly reporting purposes has changed.

Public reporting for four Five-Star quality measures has been frozen at the January 2024 performance rates, and those measures will be replaced with new measures that will be used to calculate a Quality Measures star rating at the January 2025 Care Compare refresh.

Nursing homes can access their 2023 Nursing Home Quality Initiative scores on the Health Commerce System.

The CDC recently hosted a webinar on the new changes to NHSN LTC reporting requirements for acute respiratory illnesses.

This comes in response to changes to four quality measures that will be used to calculate the Quality Measures domain of the Five-Star Quality Rating System at the January 2025 Care Compare refresh.