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"I don't want to die from old age in a nursing home," he reportedly told a friend.
Furthermore, according to CMS's own data, 52% of nursing homes in the six pilot states requested technical assistance on quality improvement from the QIOs, and most nursing homes in these six states (88%) had heard of the Nursing Home Quality Initiative to publicly report quality of care information [ 6 ] .
For example, the Maryland Health Care Commission began reporting on a set of quality indicators for nursing homes in the state of Maryland in 2001 in response to a legislative mandate [ 9 10 ] . Additionally, the CMS Nursing Home Compare web site (at http://www.medicare.gov) reported a set of quality indicators for all nursing homes nationally from 1998 to November 2002, when the new set of quality measures became available.
Quality improvement theory was not well understood by nursing home staff when general quality improvement concepts and terms (such as flow-charting and root-cause analysis) were presented without using nursing home care processes as examples, or were presented only with examples from manufacturing or other health care settings.
Improvements included increased funding for nursing home surveyors, more prompt investigation of complaints alleging serious harm to residents, more immediate enforcement actions for homes with repeated serious problems, a reorganization of HCFA's regional staff to improve consistency in oversight, and increased funding for administrative law judges to reduce the backlog of appealed enforcement actions.
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