Mary Madison, RN, RAC-CT, CDP Clinical Consultant – Briggs Healthcare® Tuesday, March 5, 2019 was a busy day for CMS postings.  Two such postings should be reviewed by your team: Revisions to Appendix Q, Guidance on Immediate Jeopardy – QSO-19-09-ALL April 2019 Improvements to Nursing Home Compare and the Five Star Rating – QSO-19-08-NH  …… Continue reading CMS Issues 2 Guidance Documents That You Need to Review!

Mary Madison, RN, RAC-CT, CDP Clinical Consultant – Briggs Healthcare® CMS NEWS – FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE March 5, 2019 Contact: CMS Media Relations (202) 690-6145 | CMS Media Inquiries CMS Improving Nursing Home Compare in April 2019 Changes offer greater support to consumers looking to compare quality of Nursing Homes Today, the Centers for Medicare &…… Continue reading CMS Improving Nursing Home Compare in April 2019

Mary Madison, RN, RAC-CT, CDP Clinical Consultant – Briggs Healthcare® CMS is updating the Quality Improvement and Evaluation System Starting in March, the Quality Improvement and Evaluation System (QIES), Certification and Survey Provider Enhanced Reports (CASPER) and Automated Survey Processing Environment (ASPEN) will undergo a series of modernizing enhancements. Once updated, the system will be…… Continue reading CMS Updating QIES/ASAP System Starting in March

Mary Madison, RN, RAC-CT, CDP Clinical Consultant – Briggs Healthcare® For the second time since October 1, 2018 (implementation of MDS 3.0 version 1.16), CMS has posted another errata document. The document, dated February 13, 2019, was uploaded to the CMS website with a date of February 22, 2019 (the website shows the date of…… Continue reading Updated MDS 3.0 RAI Manual Errata Document Posted

Mary Madison, RN, RAC-CT, CDP Clinical Consultant – Briggs Healthcare® CMS surprised all LTC providers late yesterday and posted the latest version of the Quality Measures User’s Manual. This latest version is 110 pages in length and carries an effective date of January 1, 2019. The MDS 3.0 QM User’s Manual Version 12.0 has been…… Continue reading MDS 3.0 QM User’s Manual Version 12.0 Now Available

Mary Madison, RN, RAC-CT, CDP Clinical Consultant – Briggs Healthcare® “In response to requests from nursing homes interested in comparing their results with those of other nursing homes on the Surveys on Patient Safety Culture™ (SOPSTM) Nursing Home Survey, the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) established the Nursing Home Survey on Patient Safety…… Continue reading Nursing Home Survey on Patient Safety Culture – 2019 User Database Report

Mary Madison, RN, RAC-CT, CDP Clinical Consultant – Briggs Healthcare® In November 2018, CMS posted information on the Civil Money Penalty Reinvestment Program (CMPRP) – a three-year effort to reduce adverse events, improve staffing quality and improve dementia care in nursing homes.   At that time, the 1st of 3 toolkits was posted “to aid nursing…… Continue reading CMS Posts Second CMPRP Toolkit: Nursing Home Employee Satisfaction Survey

Mary Madison, RN, RAC-CT, CDP Clinical Consultant – Briggs Healthcare® The February 14, 2019 SNF/LTC Open Door Forum – the 1st one held in 2019 – had a last minute agenda item added along with the agenda that was posted. The ODF lasted only 30 minutes. I’m providing you with the key items I heard…… Continue reading Takeaways from Today’s SNF/LTC Open Door Forum