McKnight's May 24, 2024
In a column published by McKnight’s in December 2023, “Revamping CMS Survey Data Integration Amid Regulatory Lag in Nursing Home Oversight,” I urged the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services to critically assess the impact of surveyor staffing shortages on the Five-Star Health Inspection domain calculation.
Many nursing homes have not had an annual recertification survey in well over a year, with the average delay being 578 days. Since the Five-Star rating largely depends on surveys, these delays mean that consumers, residents and providers are not receiving current and relevant information. At Zimmet Healthcare Services Group, we monitor these statistics closely, and frankly, not much has changed since COVID.
To more fully understand how these survey delays impact consumer information,...
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