CMS is launching a streamlined survey and certification process for psychiatric hospitals, beginning in March. Psychiatric hospitals now undergo two separate on-site compliance surveys, one by the ...

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services will be testing truncated survey processes starting in 2024, part of an effort to make on-site inspections more efficient as the agency deals with multiple ...

Marion is asking residents to participate in its National Community Survey this month. The survey, designed to evaluate how city government serves its residents, gauge perceptions of the city and make ...

The Joint Commission has revised its home health agency accreditation survey process to align with similar CMS guideline updates published March 15. The revisions were announced in an Oct. 9 ...

The Social Security Act mandates that all nursing homes participating in the Medicare program—currently more than 14,000—undergo an annual recertification inspection, known as a standard survey, to ...

Nursing homes care for the most vulnerable members of our society. Those responsible for the coordination and delivery of care in nursing homes should absolutely be held accountable for clinical ...

The award has to be earned and it's based on employee feedback by a survey. The survey asks employees for their feedback on such factors as pay and benefits, direction, leadership, meaningfulness, and ...