Staffing takes a front seat when driving quality of care
…In CMS’s new rating methodology, facilities are rewarded for staffing more RNs — and punished when they don’t have enough. Ratings on the staffing domain are based on two measures: the number of RN hours per resident per day and total nursing hours (combined RN, LPN, and nurse aide hours) per resident per day, all pulled from quarterly Payroll-Based Journal reports.
Both the RN score and the total nurse score are rated, and the two scores are averaged together to determine the total score, giving the RN score a higher weight…
In this way, not only does CMS penalize facilities for going without a RN for three days, but it is demonstrating significant preference for RNs by leveraging RN staffing scores to directly influence the facility’s overall rating.
FROM
McKnights
PUBLISHED
December 12, 2019
SOURCE
Caulfield, Chris. “Staffing Takes a Front Seat When Driving Quality of Care.” McKnight’s Long-Term Care News, 12 Dec. 2019, www.mcknights.com/marketplace/staffing-takes-a-front-seat-when-driving-quality-of-care.
