Webinar outlining the requirement to report data through the NHSN by May 15^th will be rebroadcast in February, March, and April.

Outage will prevent nursing homes from submitting data during scheduled upgrade.

The webinar will be held on Thurs., Feb. 22^nd at 2 p.m. ET.

Providers have until Feb. 15^th to review data that will be publicly reported on Care Compare during the April 2024 refresh.

The HHS Office for Civil Rights issued a Dear Colleague Letter and FAQs to remind hospitals and long term care facilities of their obligations to ensure that visitation policies do not discriminate on the basis of religion or against other protected classes.

CMS recommends that providers allow sufficient time to download and review validation reports prior to the deadline.

The Item Sets will go into effect Oct. 1, 2024 and, along with a change document and Item Matrix, can be downloaded on the MDS 3.0 RAI Manual website.

Required weekly nursing home reporting of staff member COVID-19 vaccination status has been updated to mirror resident vaccination status reporting.