Mary Madison, RN, RAC-CT, CDPClinical Consultant – Briggs Healthcare The American Health Care Association (AHCA) has partnered with the Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology (APIC) to set up a national forum for infection preventionists and infection prevention champions working in long term care (LTC).The forum provides a platform to rapidly disseminate updates…… Continue reading Join the New LTC National Infection Prevention Forum

Mary Madison, RN, RAC-CT, CDPClinical Consultant – Briggs Healthcare The GAO publicly released this 39-page report on February 2, 2023. The accessible version (44 pages) is found here. “CMS provides oversight of the nation’s over 15,000 nursing homes that participate in the Medicare and Medicaid programs. This includes ensuring that homes have met certain quality…… Continue reading GAO: CMS Should Make (Nursing Home) Ownership Information More Transparent for Consumers

Mary Madison, RN, RAC-CT, CDPClinical Consultant – Briggs Healthcare CMS has posted the entire Appendix PP with revision date of February 3, 2023.  It can be found here. It now has 863 pages; the October 21, 2022 version had 856 pages. Last Friday, February 3rd, CMS posted this version which was incomplete, at the very…… Continue reading CMS Posts Full Revised Appendix PP

Mary Madison, RN, RAC-CT, CDPClinical Consultant – Briggs Healthcare CMS posted Transmittal 211, dated February 3, 2023 late afternoon Thursday, February 2, 2023. No need to panic as this version of Appendix PP corrects technical issues as noted above in the Summary as well as below: The actual revised Appendix PP begins on page 3…… Continue reading Revisions to Appendix PP – State Operations Manual (SOM)

Mary Madison, RN, RAC-CT, CDPClinical Consultant – Briggs Healthcare Due to the Payroll Based Journal (PBJ) quarterly deadline, the iQIES Service Center is projecting an increase in the volume of calls and emails between now and February 14, 2023.  Live phone and email support for the Monday, February 14, 2023, PBJ Deadline will be available until Monday, February 14, 2023, at 8:00 PM ET. All files must be…… Continue reading PBJ: Upcoming iQIES Service Center Hold Times   

Mary Madison, RN, RAC-CT, CDPClinical Consultant – Briggs Healthcare The January update of Appendix B to the RAI 3.0 User’s Manual contains changes to the list of State RAI Coordinators, MDS Automation Coordinators, RAI Panel members, and CMS locations and contacts. Appendix B 01302023 (PDF) Changes to Appendix B_January_2023  There are several changes this month (none posted…… Continue reading January 2023 Update: Appendix B – RAI 3.0 User’s Manual  

Mary Madison, RN, RAC-CT, CDPClinical Consultant – Briggs Healthcare AHRQ has established the Nursing Home Survey on Patient Safety Culture Database as a central repository for survey data from nursing homes that have administered the AHRQ patient safety culture survey instrument and choose to submit their survey data to the Nursing Home SOPS® database. This database serves…… Continue reading Nursing Home Survey on Patient Safety Culture Database  

Mary Madison, RN, RAC-CT, CDPClinical Consultant – Briggs Healthcare If you love data and analyzing data, the last couple of days have been a goldmine for you!  January 2023: Data have been refreshed for January 2023. Because of COVID-19 reporting exceptions, the claims-based measures were calculated excluding Q1 and Q2 2020.  For additional information, visit the…… Continue reading Numerous Additional LTC Data Sets Updated

Mary Madison, RN, RAC-CT, CDPClinical Consultant – Briggs Healthcare The Payroll Based Journal (PBJ) Nurse Staffing and Non-Nurse Staffing datasets provide information submitted by nursing homes including rehabilitation services on a quarterly basis. The View Data link above includes the hours staff are paid to work each day, for each facility, aggregated by staff reporting…… Continue reading PBJ (Payroll-Based Journal) Data Sets Updated   

Mary Madison, RN, RAC-CT, CDPClinical Consultant – Briggs Healthcare These Excel filescontain the full texts (diagnoses, medications and similar items have been removed to protect resident identity and confidentiality) of each nursing home deficiency that Survey Agencies cited on the CMS Form 2567 (Statements of Deficiencies). Due to the size of these files, they are…… Continue reading Full Text of Statements of Deficiencies – Updated January 25, 2023