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CMS Announces Independent Commission to Address Safety and Quality in Nursing Homes


Posted on: 5/4/2020

On Thursday, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services announced a new independent commission that will conduct a comprehensive assessment of the nursing home response to the COVID-19 pandemic. This effort build's on CMS's five-part plan to ensure safety and quality in America's nursing homes. The commission will develop recommendations on three key tasks:

Putting nursing home residents first by ensuring they are protected from COVID-19 and improving the responsiveness of care delivery to maximize the quality of life for residents.

Strengthening efforts to enable rapid and effective identification and mitigation of COVID-19 transmission (and other infectious diseases) in nursing homes.

Enhancing strategies to improve compliance with infection control policies in response to COVID-19.

Participants will help to identify best practices to address COVID-19, which CMS or states may incorporate into a larger regulatory framework for effective oversight to better inform federal and state officials as well as nursing homes across the country, to better achieve compliance through improved enforcement solutions, and to improve the quality of life and overall health status of nursing home residents during the pandemic.

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services and our ACMA advocacy firm Lobbyit contributed to this information.

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