McKnight's February 16, 2022
New data reveals an increase in adverse events among nursing home residents during the pandemic, an indicator that post-acute care providers and others must take a closer look at patient safety, federal officials say.
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention “are committed to a renewed focus on patient safety,” officials from both agencies wrote recently in the New England Journal of Medicine.
The officials pointed to several patient-safety metrics that have declined since the start of the pandemic, including metrics among nursing home patients that “don’t bode well” for the future.
Facility data reported to CMS during the second quarter of 2020 found skilled nursing facilities saw their rates of falls...
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