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Nursing Home Quality Initiative


CMS releases quality measure information on all Medicare and Medicaid certified nursing homes on www.medicare.gov. You may wish to review the Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs) section for additional information on the Nursing Home Quality Initiative.

Nursing Home Highlights

Coming soon 11/04 on Nursing Home Compare, new weight loss quality measure will be added.




NHQI

  • Overview (PDF 130K)
  • Improving Immunization rates: Memo (PDF 150K)
  • Roles of the QIOs and the State Survey Agencies(SSAs) (PDF 110K)
  • Roles of the QIOs the Long-Term Care Ombudsmen(LTCOPs) (PDF 93K)

Quality Measures

Nursing Home Compare

Archives

Resources



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Last Modified on Thursday, September 16, 2004