A new federal report on nursing home deficiency trends saw an up-and-down pattern in recent years, with a handful of states generating the lion’s share of issues. Officials at the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Office of the Inspector General (OIG) found the number of nursing home surveys and deficiencies rose slightly each […]
Category: Compliance
Various industry stakeholders on Wednesday took to Capitol Hill for a hearing on safety standards at the country’s skilled nursing facilities, but one leading senator took the opportunity to sound the alarm over potential cuts to the Medicaid program. The Trump administration could move as soon as next week to publicly restart the fight over […]
A Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) official last week suggested that the public would benefit from more information about resident safety at nursing homes — including the explicit identification of bad actors. Writing in response to a November study about the correlation between Nursing Home Compare star ratings and safety, CMS chief medical […]
A small group of nursing home residents in New York City has seen concrete improvements in pain management and other medical issues through the use of medical marijuana — and as the drug becomes legal in more jurisdictions, the SNF residents of the future may come to expect it as part of their care plans. […]