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Nursing Homes analyzed nursing home inspection data from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, or CMS, to illustrate the extensive backlog in nursing home inspections since the pandemic ...
Special Report: As of June, 73 percent of Kentucky’s 277 nursing homes were listed as going more than two years without a so-called “annual” inspection. It’s putting patients at risk.
About half of all facilities have yet to be inspected for procedures to stop the spread of coronavirus.
Administration of nursing homes are the state to local department of health direct to local contracts, generally for-profit. [citation needed] Depending on size, staff may include those responsible for individual departments (i.e., accounting, human resources, etc.). Nursing home administrators are required to be licensed to run nursing facilities.
Comprehensive hospice inspections by state agencies, which average just under three years, are rare compared to inspections of other health care providers, a HuffPost analysis found. Nearly 400 hospices haven’t undergone a full certification inspection in more than six years. Use the tool box below to learn more about hospices in your area.
MDS information is transmitted electronically by nursing homes to the MDS database in their respective states. MDS information from the state databases is captured into the national MDS database at Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS). Sections of MDS (Minimum Data Set): Identification Information; Hearing, Speech and Vision
For every state Health Department surveyor in Oklahoma, there are nearly seven nursing homes that need to be regularly inspected. Only three other states have a higher surveyor-to-nursing home ratio.
Nursing homes may also be referred to as care homes, skilled nursing facilities (SNF) or long-term care facilities. Often, these terms have slightly different meanings to indicate whether the institutions are public or private, and whether they provide mostly assisted living , or nursing care and emergency medical care .