Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) is Committed to Ensuring Safety and Quality in America’s Nursing Homes

Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS)  Is Committed to Ensuring Safety and Quality in America’s Nursing Homes The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) is committed to ensuring safety and quality in America’s nursing homes. To make good on that commitment, CMS Administrator Seema Verma recently announced a five-part strategy in a blog, “Ensuring Safety and Quality in Nursing Homes.” CMS has been actively addressing patient safety, improved oversight, stronger enforcement mechanisms, increased transparency, all while minimizing the administrative workload that keeps providers from seeing their patients. Administrator Verma has led the agency charge to issue new and innovative guidance that takes key steps and makes across-the-board improvements in healthcare safety and quality.  In case you missed any of these announcements or have interest in the important work taking place at CMS, we are highlighting recent activities. On April 24, Nursing Home Compare updates that were announced in the March 5 CMS Press Release went live. You may also be interested in reading Administrator Seema Verma’s Blog “Protecting the Health and Safety of all Americans.”   ###