On June 1, 2020 CMS published QSO-20-31-All. It is effective immediately and provides in part as follows: (1) States will need to perform focused infection control surveys (FICS) of 100% of the ...
A year and a half after a federal watchdog blasted the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services over extensive delays in nursing home inspections, year-end data for fiscal year 2023 shows there has ...
Thirteen states ignored CMS recommendations and did not perform targeted infection control surveys to prepare for COVID-19 patients last year, HHS’ Office of Inspector General said in a June 28 report ...
Nursing homes across the country are still being hit with frequent Focused Infection Control surveys, nine months after the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services announced that surveyors should ...
On Friday, November 12, 2021, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid (CMS) issued QSO-22-02-ALL designed to help State Survey Agencies (SSAs) address the backlog of skilled nursing facility (SNF) annual ...
The use of online surveys to collect responses from healthy people during outbreak investigations has been tested by researchers in Canada. In foodborne outbreak investigations, case-control and ...