Nursing Home And Hospital Surveyors Look For Immediate Jeopardy - Part I
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid (CMS) have a classification for crisis situations in which the health and safety of individual(s) are at risk. This classification is called Immediate Jeopardy (IJ).
CMS developed guidelines for surveyors of nursing homes and hospitals to use to help determine if the circumstances they are seeing pose an Immediate Jeopardy [...]
Help Me! Help Me! Where To Get Surveyor Help For Nursing Home And Hospital Issues.
So let’s say you have a problem with a facility. Perhaps you saw staff yelling at a nursing home resident. Maybe you are a nursing home resident and the staff are ignoring your requests for assistance. Perhaps you are a patient in a hospital and the staff are not doing your care right. Maybe it [...]
Welcome to the World of a Nursing Home and Hospital Surveyor (Investigator)
Welcome to my world - the world of a surveyor of healthcare facilities. Here you are going to learn a great deal about nursing homes and hospitals. You are going to see things that go on behind the scenes. You are going to find out what the surveyors (investigators) look for. What kind of training [...]
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