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Nursing Home Quality: Implementation of the Quality Indicator Survey

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Report Type Reports and Testimonies
Report Date April 6, 2011
Report No. GAO-11-403R
Agency Department of Health and Human Services: Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services
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Summary:

This report formally our discusses the approach that the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) is taking to implement the Quality Indicator Survey (QIS) nationally. CMS developed the QIS--a new electronic process used to conduct nursing home inspections--to provide a more reliable assessment of the quality of care in nursing homes. Congress asked us to review the implementation of the QIS. As Congress requested, this report provides background information on the nursing home inspection process and describe the approach CMS is taking to implement the QIS. These slides were used to brief Congressional staff on March 28, 2011. We will address other issues related to implementation of the QIS in a subsequent report. We provided a draft of this report to the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and the agency provided technical comments, which we incorporated as appropriate.

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