For Your Health:
Keeping the Pulse of the Law
Don’t expose yourself to unnecessary risks. Documentation containing inadvertent errors can often times be used as the basis for civil lawsuits and criminal prosecutions before those accused have the opportunity to explain or correct those errors. SNF scrutiny in a politically charged environment warrants operators to place additional emphasis on documentation compliance to avoid issues.
In advance of the President’s State of the Union address, the White House released a Fact Sheet yesterday entitled Protecting Seniors and People with Disabilities by Improving Safety and Quality of Care in the Nation’s Nursing Homes. The Fact Sheet is intended to summarize the Administration’s reform efforts, developed by and implemented through the U.S. Dept. of Health and Human Services (HHS) to improve the safety and quality of nursing home care nationally. These Federal reforms could have significant consequences for the nursing home industry if implemented.
