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 ...

On March 23, 2020, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) announced that during the next three weeks, State Survey Agency (SSA) and CMS surveyors will only prioritize and conduct surveys ...

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 ...

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 ...

ATLANTA — The COVID-19 pandemic has hit the state's elderly population hard, and nursing homes have had to take precautions to handle the virus. "This pandemic has hit nursing homes across this ...

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 ...

BOISE — The Idaho Department of Health and Welfare has completed 115 infection control surveys in Idaho’s 82 nursing homes, identifying 66 citations that needed correction. The other 49 surveys found ...

About 40% of all COVID-19 deaths in Virginia linked to nursing homes, assisted living LANSING, Mich. – Michigan’s Survey Agency, the Bureau of Community and Health Systems within the Department of ...