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CMS Adds New Quality Measures to Nursing Home Compare

August 16, 2016

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services updated the Nursing Home Compare Five-Star Quality Ratings to incorporate new measures that look at successful discharges, emergency visits, and re-hospitalizations. The five new measures include:

1. Percentage of short-stay residents who were successfully discharged to the community (Medicare claims- and Minimum Data Set (MDS)-based)

2. Percentage of short-stay residents who have had an outpatient emergency department visit (Medicare claims- and MDS-based)

3. Percentage of short-stay residents who were rehospitalized after a nursing home admission (Medicare claims- and MDS-based)

4. Percentage of short-stay residents who made improvements in function (MDS-based)

5. Percentage of long-stay residents whose ability to move independently worsened (MDS-based)

For more information, visit CMS' website.