What To Do Before Meeting With A Nursing Home Lawyer
When you become aware of mistreatment of a nursing facility it is important to get your loved one the medical treatment they need and then get into ‘fact collection mode’. In fact collection mode, you are beginning to collect information about the incident, acts of the nursing home staff and medical condition of your loved [...]
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 [...]