Nursing Home And Hospital Surveyors Look For Immediate Jeopardy - Part 2
In the previous post we started talking about Immediate Jeopardy. There are some triggers which, when seen, should clue the hospital and nursing home surveyor or survey team into looking further to see if there is an IJ situation. Although CMS doesn’t consider the triggers to be all inclusive, they are a good starting point. [...]
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 [...]
The A to L of Nursing Homes in the Eyes of a Nursing Home And Hospital Surveyor
For Federal surveys, hospitals and nursing homes have a different rating or grading system. In fact, nursing homes have a different system than all the other healthcare facility types. Nursing homes have a Severity and Scope level (from A through L). Hospitals and other healthcare provider types have standards and conditions of participation.
We will talk [...]