Nursing home compare
Introduction
Nursing homes that provide Medicare or Medicaid services are required to make results of its last full inspection available for public view.
Site contains quality of care & staffing information for all 15,000 plus Medicare- & Medicaid-participating nursing homes; it does not provide information on any facility licensed by the state[1]
Site gives information about quality measures, staffing patterns, & inspection results
Site compares nursing home's performance with National & regional average performances.
Site contains information about nursing facilities only
Most of the quality measures reflect a sample of residents' conditions in the 7 days prior to inspection, thus providing a snapshot of quality of care at the time of the survey[1]
Site includes information about abuse or neglect in a nursing home[1]
Quality measures are generated from the Minimum Data Set
Inspections are mandated at least every 15 months
The five star rating system was created to help consumers, their families & providers compare the quality of care & services of nursing homes
Quality measures reported by CMS[3]
- long-term residents
- influenza vaccination (%)
- Pneumococcal vaccination (%)
- % with increased need for assistance with ADLs
- % with self-reported moderate to severe pain
- % who were physically restrained
- % with depressive symptoms
- % with indwelling urinary catheter at some time
- % with urinary tract infection
- % with too much weight loss
- % with 1 or more falls with major injury
- % who received antipsychotic
- long-term low-risk residents
- % with urinary incontinence or fecal incontinence
- long-term high-risk residents
- % with pressure ulcers
- short-term residents
- influenza vaccination (%)
- Pneumococcal vaccination (%)
- % who received antipsychotic
- % with self-reported moderate to severe pain
- % with pressure ulcers that are new or worsened
More general terms
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 Geriatric Review Syllabus, 7th edition Parada JT et al (eds) American Geriatrics Society, 2010
Geriatric Review Syllabus, 8th edition (GRS8) Durso SC and Sullivan GN (eds) American Geriatrics Society, 2013
Geriatric Review Syllabus, 11th edition (GRS11) Harper GM, Lyons WL, Potter JF (eds) American Geriatrics Society, 2022 - ↑ Medicare.gov: Nursing Home Compare http://www.medicare.gov/NHCompare/
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services: Nursing Home Quality Initiatives: Quality Measures http://www.cms.hhs.gov/NursingHomeQualityInits/