On January 18, 2023, CMS issued a Quality, Safety & Oversight Group memorandum announcing its initiative to improve nursing home safety and transparency. Specifically, CMS will conduct audits to ...

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services announced Monday that it will begin posting certain nursing home ownership information, as well as aggregated MDS data for all residents at a facility, ...

Some Care Compare information used by consumers to evaluate nursing homes is too old, and, in some cases, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services needs to add more information to make data more ...

About 5 percent of nursing homes — or 760 of 15,262 facilities — have been tagged with an icon alerting consumers of abuse, neglect or exploitation citations since CMS updated its Nursing Home Compare ...

The Biden-Harris administration and CMS are enacting new rules aimed at reducing the inappropriate use of antipsychotic medications and increasing transparency about nursing home citations to families ...

CMS is focusing on the overcoding of schizophrenia, since patients diagnosed with schizophrenia are not included in a metric that measures a nursing home’s rate of antipsychotic medications. Nursing ...

The additional measures are part of the Biden Administration's efforts to increase accountability for nursing homes. The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, through the Centers for Medicare ...

Nearly 2,900 nursing homes across the country received varying U.S. News Best Nursing Home designations this year.

Federal data released Monday shows ownership of about 15,000 nursing homes nationwide, information that will allow state regulators, researchers and the public to better track common owners. Officials ...