The Social Security Act mandates that all nursing homes participating in the Medicare program—currently more than 14,000—undergo an annual recertification inspection, known as a standard survey, to ...

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 ...

It’s not enough to make a goal; you need to figure out how to reach it It’s a new year, and you’ve set new goals for yourself. That’s fantastic. Now you have to figure out how to make them happen.

Nursing homes should allow visitation for residents “at all times,” while state surveyors received steps on how to address a backlog of complaint and recertification surveys under two separate memos ...