CMS Releases 2015 Nursing Home Data Compendium

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has released its 11th annual Nursing Home Data Compendium. The compendium contains figures and tables presenting data on all Medicare and Medicaid certified nursing homes in the United States as well as the residents in these nursing homes.

A series of graphs and maps highlights some of the most interesting data, while detailed data are available in accompanying tables. The data compendium is divided into three sections. Section one presents information on nursing home characteristics; section two focuses on nursing home survey results; and section three presents information on the demographic, functional and clinical characteristics of nursing home residents. 

In terms of survey trends, the Compendium notes that in 2014, 55.2 percent of all health deficiencies were cited at scope and severity “D;” 83.8 percent of deficiencies were cited at “D” or “E,” and only 3.2 percent of deficiencies were cited at “G” or higher. The percentage of surveys resulting in one or more citations for deficiencies at the actual harm level or higher (“G”-“L”) fell each year between 2006 and 2013, reaching a ten year low in 2013 of 10.3 percent; it was slightly higher in 2014 (10.6 percent). Similarly, the percentage of surveys resulting in the determination of substandard quality of care has been generally declining since 2008, when it was 4.4 percent; in 2014, it was 3.2 percent. The data also shows an increase in deficiency free surveys between 2005 and 2014.

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