CMS Increasing Focus on Staffing Levels, Turnover in Nursing Homes
This Featured Article is contributed by AHLA’s Post-Acute and Long Term Services Practice Group.
- March 25, 2022
- Christine L. Stanley , Quintairos Prieto Wood & Boyer PA
Amid a global pandemic, which has led to the largest nursing shortage in decades, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) announced in a January 7, 2022 Quality Safety & Oversight (QSO) memorandum that additional information about nursing home staffing was being added to the Care Compare refresh—namely, weekend nurse staffing levels and nursing home staff turnover.[4] These updates also will affect the Five-Star Quality Rating calculations starting this summer.
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