tci Medicare Compliance & Reimbursement - 2003 Issue 14

Quality of Care: FOR NURSING HOMES, QUALITY IS JOB ONE

Nursing homes that fail to establish solid programs to ensure quality of care could very well end up having such programs imposed on them. As state and federal prosecution of "failure of care" cases heats up, nursing homes are more and more often compelled, as a condition of settling the cases, to implement aggressive quality-oriented compliance programs. In one recent example, a Hobbs, NM nursing home entered into such an agreement with the New Mexico attorney general's office. AG Patricia Madrid says Country Cottage Care and Rehabilitative Center failed to provide services that met minimum quality standards, and improperly...

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