The Office of Inspector General (OIG) recently completed a study entitled Medicare Nursing Home Resident Hospitalization Rates Merit Additional Monitoring. In its comments on the draft report, OIG recommends that CMS develop a quality measure that describes nursing home resident hospitalization rates and consider publicly reporting this measure on the Nursing Home Compare website.

DOH has posted nursing home 2013 Quality Pool score sheets on the HCS. 

A DOH outline of the measures and calculations used in the 2013 nursing home quality pool.  

The Dear Administrator letter announcing that nursing homes may now access their 2013 quality pool reports on the HCS and providing instructions on doing so.  

A DOH guide to interpreting your facility-specific 2013 quality pool report posted to the HCS on November 13.

The Five Star Preview Reports will be available beginning Nov. 11.

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services has issued another updated RAI manual this week, v 1.11.

The National Partnership to Improve Dementia Care in Nursing Homes has released the latest trend update to reflect the progress of their initiative to decrease antipsychotic use in nursing homes.  There has been an overall average decline in antipsychotic usage nationally of 11.43 percent.