January 12, 2022
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services has issued Quality Safety & Oversight Memo QSO-22-08-NF (PDF).
The memo includes the following key updates:
- CMS will begin posting the following information for each nursing home on the Medicare.gov Care Compare website:
- Weekend Staffing: The level of total nurse and registered nurse (RN) staffing on weekends provided by each nursing home over a quarter.
- Staff Turnover: The percent of nursing staff and number of administrators that stopped working at the nursing home over a 12-month period.
- CMS will begin posting the submitted employee-level staffing data for all nursing homes.
- Nursing homes must link employee identifiers when they are changed due to changes in the facility’s staffing data systems.