Nursing Homes and Hospitals

How A Nursing Home Surveyor Conducts The Nursing Home Survey - Part 5

After the nursing home survey team has finished with the survey, the members will then write the issues they found. This writing is done on the “Statement of Deficiencies”, commonly referred to as the “2567″. The number “2567″ refers to the number CMS has assigned to the statement of deficiencies form.
The statement of deficiencies is [...]

How a Nursing Home Surveyor Conducts The Nursing Home Survey - Part 4

I discussed with you a bit about the Tasks one expects to see a nursing home surveyor conduct during a “QIS” nursing home survey. Those tasks are different than those conducted in a traditional nursing home survey. A nursing home surveyor will have 7 tasks in a traditional survey.
Task 1: Offsite Survey Preparation. This is [...]

How A Nursing Home Surveyor Conducts The Nursing Home Survey - Part 3

I am in the midst of explaining some concepts to you about how a nursing home surveyor prepares to conduct a nursing home survey. This is Part 3. I talked a little about the two forms of Survey, the QIS survey and the Standard survey. I want to explain, now, the Tasks for the QIS [...]

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