Nursing Home and Hospital Surveyors no Longer Allowed to Provide Information Without the Permission of the Head of CMS!
A patient in a North Carolina nursing home was allowed to fall by a nurse aide. The aide and her friends/coworkers covered it up and for two weeks the patient was untreated for a hip fracture. She was eventually taken to a hospital and there it was found she had a broken hip. Shocked by [...]
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 [...]