Don't know which facility to choose? CMS created the Five-Star Quality Rating System to help consumers, their families, and caregivers compare nursing homes more easily.
A quality rating system that gives each nursing home a rating of between 1 and 5 stars. Nursing homes with 5 stars are considered to have much above average quality and nursing homes with 1 star are considered to have quality below average. A separate rating for each of the following three sources of information:
Health Inspections – The health inspection rating contains information from the last 3 years of onsite inspections. This information is gathered by individuals who go onsite to the nursing home and follow a specific process to determine the extent to which a nursing home has met Medicare's minimum quality requirements. The most recent survey findings and More than 200,000 onsite reviews are used in the health inspection scoring nationally.
Staffing – The staffing rating has information about the number of hours of care on average provided to each resident each day by nursing staff. This rating considers the difference in the level of need of care of residents in different homes.
Quality Measures (QMs) – The quality measure rating has information on 10 different physical and clinical measures for nursing home residents. This information is collected by the nursing home for all residents and the QMs offer information about how well nursing homes are caring for their residents' physical and clinical needs.
More than 12 million assessments of the conditions of nursing home residents are used in the Five-Star rating system. To help you find the nursing home that is priced in your range and offers quality service for your aging elder.
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