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Record Nr.

UNINA9910820010603321

Autore

Allen James E (James Elmore), <1935->

Titolo

Nursing home federal requirements : guidelines to surveyors and survey procedures / / James E. Allen

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, : Springer Pub. Co., c2011

ISBN

1-282-96676-6

9786612966767

0-8261-0792-3

Edizione

[7th ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (614 p.)

Disciplina

344.7303/216

344.7303216

Soggetti

Nursing homes - Law and legislation - United States

Medicaid - Law and legislation

Medicare - Law and legislation

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

"A user-friendly rendering of the Health Care Financing Administration's nursing home inspection requirement." -- T.p.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

pt. 1. State operations manual -- pt. 2. Rules for conducting the survey -- pt. 3. Summary of the federal requirements for long term care facilities -- pt. 4. CMS forms used by surveyors.

Sommario/riassunto

""[The book] lists all the federal requirements that are evaluated by state surveyors during the annual survey visit to nursing homes and for complaint visits. The exhibit section contains forms used by surveyors to gather data during the survey visit. Visually, the format makes the regulations easy to read. If nursing home staff used the book to prepare for a survey, they would be well prepared."" Marcia Flesner , PhD, RN, MHCA. University of Missouri-Columbia. From Doody's Review. The Federal government, together with more than 50 advocacy groups, has spent the past 40 years writing and