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Nursing Home Rating to Be Overhauled

The five-star rating system used by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid (CMS) to review nursing homes will go through an overhaul after the passage of the Improving Post-Acute Care Transformation (IMPACT) Act. The bill, which President Obama signed into law in October, will increase official visits to hospice facilities.

CMS’ Nursing Home Compare site ranks providers on a scale of 1 to 5, but the system came under fire after complaints that it was inadequate and the data was self-reported and unverified. Since the government did not audit the nursing homes, they were rated via an honor system and the assumption that their reported statistics were correct.

Beginning in January, CMS will gather staffing data directly, instead of relying on self-reported data and turnover rates. Re-hospitalization rates and reductions in antipsychotic drug use will both now be included in the rating system.

“IMPACT will standardize assessments for critical care issues across the spectrum of post-acute care providers,” Mark Parkinson, president and chief executive officer of the American Health Care Association and National Center for Assisted Living, said in a statement when the Senate had passed the bill. “Assessing improvement in areas such as functional outcomes, pressure ulcers and dementia goes a long way toward improving the health and well-being of our patients. This will also allow the development and public reporting of quality measures for providers.”

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  • Nurse Practitioners Gain More Autonomy in New York in 2015
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  • Nursing Home Rating to Be Overhauled
  • Nursing Organizations Push for Legislation to Reauthorize Workforce Programs
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  • Personalized Breast Cancer Screening
  • Pharma Payments to Nurse Practitioners Absent from Open Payments Database
  • Planet Fitness To Stop Offering “Unlimited” Indoor Tanning As Part Of Settlement With New York AG
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  • Study: Women Who Use Contraceptive Implant 10 Times More Likely To Need Additional Surgery
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  • Acknowledging the Tireless Work of Physicians on National Doctor’s Day
  • American Cancer Society Reveals New Breast Cancer Screening Recommendations
  • De Blasio Releases Details of Turnaround Plan For NYC Health & Hospitals
  • De Blasio Unveils $850 Million Mental Health Roadmap
  • Dietary Supplements Send 23,000 People To EDs Each Year
  • EHR and ICD-10 Explained
  • Family Medicine Residency Program At New York – Presbyterian To Remain Open
  • Family Medicine Residency Program At New York – Presbyterian To Remain Open
  • Filipino Nurses and Related Articles
  • Financial Burden of Dementia
  • Growing Role of Nurses and Progress on Future of Nursing Recommendations
  • Health Effects of Hurricane Katrina – Five Years Later
  • Health Republic Closing Today (November 30, 2015)
  • Health Republic Insurance of New York Co-Op to Close
  • HHS Projects 10 Million People Will Have ACA Coverage By End Of 2016
  • ICD-9 to ICD-10 Translator
  • Implantable Device Can Be Remotely Controlled to Deliver Drugs
  • Increasing Trend In Graduating Nurses
  • Legionnaires’ Outbreak in South Bronx Claims 8 Lives
  • National Centenarian Day – Living to 100
  • New York Company To Offer World’s First Kosher Medical Marijuana
  • NPs Joining Primary Care Increases
  • Nurse Practitioners Gain More Autonomy in New York in 2015
  • Nurse Practitioners Provide Quality Care to Diabetes Patients
  • Nurses Improving Outcomes, Saving Money
  • Nursing Home Rating to Be Overhauled
  • Nursing Organizations Push for Legislation to Reauthorize Workforce Programs
  • NYPD Study Shows Increased Cancer Rates In 9/11 Ground Zero First Responder Police
  • Personalized Breast Cancer Screening
  • Pharma Payments to Nurse Practitioners Absent from Open Payments Database
  • Planet Fitness To Stop Offering “Unlimited” Indoor Tanning As Part Of Settlement With New York AG
  • Recognizing the Progress Made on World AIDS Day
  • Resource
  • Sodium Warnings Will Appear On Menus In New York City
  • Study: Women Who Use Contraceptive Implant 10 Times More Likely To Need Additional Surgery
  • Teen Births In US Are Declining
  • The Eden Prescription
  • Use Of Antipsychotic Medications Increasing Among Seniors
  • Veterans Health Care
  • Zika Virus Precautions in Long Island
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