Survey, Clinical and Quality

Survey, Clinical and Quality Five Star Cut-Point Tables Updated: The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) has updated the cut-point tables for the nursing home Five Star rating system. Updated tables are available for health inspection thresholds and staffing data.
December 3, 2013

Survey, Clinical and Quality National Provider Call Suggests Strategies for Medication Reduction: The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) held a national provider call for nursing home providers related to reducing psychoactive medication usage on Monday, Nov. 25, 2013.
December 3, 2013

Survey, Clinical and Quality DOH to Recalculate 2013 Quality Pool Results: DOH has confirmed that they will be making corrections to the 2013 quality pool scoring and re-issuing the facility-specific reports.
November 26, 2013

Survey, Clinical and Quality OIG Seeks NH Rehospitalization Rate QM: The Office of Inspector General (OIG) recently completed a study entitled Medicare Nursing Home Resident Hospitalization Rates Merit Additional Monitoring. In its comments on the draft report, OIG recommends that CMS develop a quality measure that describes nursing home resident hospitalization rates and consider publicly reporting this measure on the Nursing Home Compare website.
November 20, 2013

Survey, Clinical and Quality Nursing Home 2013 Quality Pool Score Sheets Now Available: DOH has posted nursing home 2013 Quality Pool score sheets on the HCS.
November 19, 2013

Survey, Clinical and Quality Nursing Home Quality Pool Methodology: A DOH outline of the measures and calculations used in the 2013 nursing home quality pool.
November 13, 2013

Survey, Clinical and Quality Nursing Home Quality Pool DAL: The Dear Administrator letter announcing that nursing homes may now access their 2013 quality pool reports on the HCS and providing instructions on doing so.
November 13, 2013

Survey, Clinical and Quality Nursing Home Quality Pool Report Guide: A DOH guide to interpreting your facility-specific 2013 quality pool report posted to the HCS on November 13.
November 13, 2013

Survey, Clinical and Quality Five Star Preview Reports Available: The Five Star Preview Reports will be available beginning Nov. 11.
November 12, 2013

Survey, Clinical and Quality CMS Issues Updated RAI Manual v 1.11: The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services has issued another updated RAI manual this week, v 1.11.
November 12, 2013