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: Illinois Nursing Home Abuse BlogCenters for Medicare and Medicaid Services Releases its Action Plan for Nursing Home Improvement
By Levin & Perconti
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) has released its action plan for nursing home improvement. CMS is responsible for establishing standards for national nursing home care by developing the standards, inspecting homes, and collaborating with other organizations to help ensure standards are met. The CMS action plan lays out the 2008 goals and milestones for improving nursing home standards including plans on improving treatment and management of bedsores and pressure ulcers, ways to improve feeding by using dedicated feeding aides, and other means of improving nursing home care.
Read the full action plan here.
Full post as published by Illinois Nursing Home Abuse Blog on May 06, 2008 (boomark / email).
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