PBJ research report and related news:Staffing shortages at nursing homes during the COVID-19 pandemic may have impacted care providers’ staffing hours and affected residents’ care and outcomes. This study examines the...
PBJ research report and related news: This study examines how measures of staffing—turnover and instability—are associated with one another and how they independently contribute to quality of care in nursing homes. A...
Nursing home administrators spent 20 percent less time on-site in recent years, group claimsAccusations that nursing home administrators are spending 20% less time with residents and on-site miss the mark, said two...
PBJ research report and related news: This is the second report in the series and builds on the first OIG report by focusing on nursing homes themselves. It looks at the extent to which they had residents who were...
PBJ research report and related news: REIT investment was associated with average relative staffing increases of 2.15 percent and 1.55 percent for licensed practical nurses (LPNs) and certified nursing assistants...
PBJ research report and related news: This study examined whether staffing instability, defined as the percentage of days below average staffing levels, is associated with nursing home quality when controlling for...
News Digest: Legislative branch questions proposed executive rule Federal legislators in Congress vocally responded to CMS' proposed rule. While CMS considers public comments and works on the Final Rule in 2024, the...
News Digest: Minimum Staffing Rules Incent Plan to Hire More Nurses As some view a minimum staffing requirement as almost an inevitability, strategies begin to emerge to accomplish tactics such as increasing the...
News Digest: Consumer Advocates, Unions and Some Congressman Support the Staffing Mandate With the loud and consistent negative reaction to CMS' proposed minimum staffing standards, one could fail to recognize that...
News Digest: How does private equity investment affect nursing home staffing and minimum staffing requirementsOnly 6% of real estate investment trust (REIT) assets are in compliance with the federal minimum staffing...
News Digest: Billions needed to comply with minimim staffing mandate Competing estimates of the cost to get all skilled nursing facilities to a minimum staffing level all come in with multi-billion dollar price tags....
News Digest: Unions play a role in the minimum staffing pushHealth and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra this week took part in a national union event supporting the proposed nursing home staffing rule, giving...
Staffing is difficult—that was a defining truth for nursing homes before the COVID-19 public health emergency created a full-blown staffing crisis that still is harming providers throughout healthcare. So, it may seem like the wrong time for directors of nursing services (DNSs) to pay much attention to the staffing domain in the Five-Star Quality Rating System.
“However, all of the Five-Star data—the staffing, health inspections, and quality measures domains—funnels into multiple parts of a facility’s life,” says Shelly Maffia, RN, MSN, MBA, NHA, QCP, CHC, director of regulatory services for Proactive Medical Review and Consulting in Evansville, IN.
5 Star, QM’s and PBJ data updates have been released. Last week, we shared that QRP’s were released for review. All are critical reporting which impacts our 2022 FY reimbursement and our publicly displayed information on Care Compare. There are a few small windows of time for review and correction if needed.
Nursing homes have manipulated the influential star system in ways that have masked deep problems — and left them unprepared for Covid-19. The piece, as you may have already deduced speaks to Nursing Home Compare, the Five-Star Rating System and Payroll Based Journal (PBJ).
CMS announced on December 4 that the Five Star Quality Rating system will resume all updates with the January 2021 refresh. Due to the public health emergency (PHE) first issued in March 2020, the 3 domains of the rating system had previously been held constant at varying times throughout the past 9 months as a result of changes to health inspections and certain temporary regulatory waivers.
COVID-19 has dominated the news — and the senior care industry. Over the past few months, CMS has issued waivers, updated waivers, and repealed waivers. Amidst this COVID chaos is confusion over what PBJ Staffing data is currently posted on Nursing Home Compare. Is it Q1?…Q2? When do you see Q3? What about Q4?
Accurate PBJ reporting can impact your Five-Star rating, referral patterns, census stability and overall long-term viability.
