Long-Term Care Survey Alert
SURVEYORS GET MARCHING ORDERS ON ABUSE REPORTING
Expect state survey agencies to do a better job reporting resident abuse to law enforcement and Medicaid Fraud Control Units, if they follow a strongly worded directive from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. In a March 28 letter to state survey agencies and CMS regional administrators, CMS Survey and Certification Group Director Steven Pelovitz clarifies agency policies on abuse and lays out the time frames within which states must process allegations of misconduct. The missive comes in the wake of a March 4 Senate hearing that highlighted horrific instances of nursing home abuse and a General Accounting Office report stressing that abuse allegations too often go unreported. The letter stresses that, if a survey agency validates a finding of abuse, it "must report the substantiated findings to law enforcement and, if appropriate, the Medicaid Fraud Control Unit."
Long-Term Care Survey Alert
- Survey Management:
10 THINGS NEVER TO SAY OR DO DURING A SURVEY
Have you ever really put your foot in your mouth during a survey, hoping surveyors [...] - Quality of Care:
NEW MEDICARE RESOURCES CAN IMPROVE YOUR DEMENTIA CARE
Its the best news that facilities struggling to provide good dementia care on limited resources [...] - Alzheimers Disease:
GET TO SURVEYORS BOTTOM LINE ON ALZHEIMERS CARE
Is your facilitys dementia care ready for surveyors who have citations on their minds? Survey [...] - Survey Management:
GET SURVEYORS ON YOUR PAGE WITH DEMENTIA SERVICES
Sometimes even the best dementia care program wont make surveyors happy, especially if they arent [...] - Alzheimers Disease:
USE VERBAL, NONVERBAL CUES TO HELP SLOW ADL DECLINE
Functional decline is an inevitable effect of Alzheimer's disease and other forms of progressive cognitive [...] - Fall Management:
MAKE SURE YOUR FALL PROTOCOLS DONT FALL SHORT
Talk about double jeopardy. Surveyors not only hand out F tags for falls, they will [...] - Survey Appeals:
ALJ RULINGS PROVIDE INSIGHT INTO WINNABLE APPEALS
To appeal or not to appeal: That's the big decision when your facility disagrees with [...] - Risk Management:
HEAD OFF CITATIONS, LIABILITY CAUSED BY TEMP STAFF
A nurse from a temporary agency leaves a resident unattended in the bathtub and he [...] - Federal Developments:
LEGISLATION WOULD MAKE SURVEYS KINDER, GENTLER EXPERIENCE
Legislation introduced in Congress March 20 would transform surveys into a more collaborative process between [...] - Federal Developments:
CMS GIVES GREEN LIGHT TO FEEDING ASSISTANTS
Nursing facilities will get some staffing relief under a proposal unveiled late last month. The [...] - Abuse Prevention:
SURVEYORS GET MARCHING ORDERS ON ABUSE REPORTING
Expect state survey agencies to do a better job reporting resident abuse to law enforcement [...] - Risk Management:
FACILITIES GET LIABILITY INSURANCE BREAK FOR MATTRESS SYSTEM
A new campaign claims that a highly touted new mattress and treatment system appears to [...] - Quality Improvement:
QI PROJECT RESULTS WONT PLEASE ALL FACILITIES
The results of the pilot project to share new nursing home quality measures with the [...] - Pharmacology:
ACE INHIBITORS MAY IMPROVE SENIORS STRENGTH
ACE inhibitors may do more than lower blood pressure and ease cardiac overload. Researchers at [...]
