Skilled Nursing News June 22, 2023
A Government Accountability Office (GAO) report released Wednesday found that Care Compare was lacking in some data metrics related to resident experience, among other metrics.
The report found that Care Compare, which provides key information on infection control, cost, workforce and additional critical measures about a facility’s performance, needs continuous improvement in order to enhance its effectiveness.
GAO found that the nursing home quality information the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) provides on Care Compare only aligns with 11 of 15 characteristics of understandability and relevancy for an effective transparency tool.
“These characteristics include providing descriptions of key differences in clinical quality of care, enabling consumers to customize information, and comparing multiple nursing homes,” GAO’s report said. “However,...
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