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Long-Term Care Survey Alert
2002 Newsletter
Side Rail Safety Assessment
Long-Term Care Survey Alert
Side Rail Safety Assessment
Published on Sun Sep 01, 2002
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Long-Term Care Survey Alert
Survey Management:
LESSONS LEARNED FROM A SURPRISE IJ CITATION
Waterman Village in Mt. Dora, FL had no idea what was coming last September when [...]
Quality Initiative:
PILOT QUALITY INITIATIVE A STEADY RIDE FOR MOST FACILITIES
If the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services' pilot Nursing Home Quality Initiative is any [...]
Quality Measures:
CMS SELECTS QUALITY MEASURES FOR NATIONAL REPORTING
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services has selected chronic and post-acute quality measures for [...]
Quality Initiative:
FACILITIES GET TO PREVIEW QM SCORES BEFORE CMS POSTS THEM
While the national Nursing Home Quality Initiative has been pushed back until after the November [...]
Quality Assurance:
CMS CONTINUES QUEST FOR VALID QUALITY MEASURES
Wanted: quality measures that truly tell if a nursing facility is providing good care. The [...]
Resident Safety:
DONT LET BED SIDE RAILS BE A FAST TRACK TO DECERTIFICATION
How do surveyors view bed side rails?
As immediate jeopardy if a resident suffers a [...]
Risk Management:
JCAHO PROVIDES 6 STRATEGIES TO ENSURE BED SIDE RAIL SAFETY
The Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations released a sentinel event alert on Sept. [...]
Infection Control:
CMS TRAINING MAY PAVE WAY TO CRACKDOWN ON VACCINATION SHORTFALLS
Where the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services' training efforts go, survey citations often follow. [...]
LTC Financing:
ADD-ON DROP COULD SINK SKILLED NURSING FACILITIES, STUDY SAYS
Unless Congress acts fast, temporary Medicare payment add-ons that were first given to skilled nursing [...]
Quality Oversight:
CMS DIRECTS STATES ON HOW TO SPEND CIVIL MONETARY PENALTIES
Ever wonder what states do with the civil monetary penalties they collect from facilities for [...]
Quality of Life:
MEASURING QUALITY OF LIFE FOR VISION-IMPAIRED RESIDENTS
Vision impairment and blindness reduce the quality of life for many nursing home residents, but [...]
Alzheimers Disease:
RESEARCHERS DISCOVER POSSIBLE NEW TARGET FOR ALZHEIMERS TREATMENT
What's in an enzyme? Perhaps a new target for the battle against Alzheimer's disease. Researchers [...]
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