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The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services is increasing scrutiny and oversight over the country's poorest-performing nursing facilities. CMS is toughening requirements for completion to the Special Focus Facility Program and increasing enforcement actions for facilities that fail to demonstrate improvement. However, currently only 0.5%, or 88 nursing homes, nationwide

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services today announced it is increasing its scrutiny of chronically low-performing nursing homes by revising its Special Focus Facility Program.

President Joe Biden outlined a broad set of policies aimed at improving nursing home care during his State of the Union address in March.

Joe died July 26 at the age of 53. He had been named to the post of the National Park Service unit at the Upper Delaware in 2020.

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The I-Team exposes a little-known federal program that lists the most problematic, poor-performing nursing homes in the metro and nationwide, and who's responsible for holding them accountable.

CMS is on a “full court sprint” toward issuing new guidance and regulations to go with President Biden’s plans for nursing home reform. 

The Oregon Marine Board wants to hear from boaters on boating access grant applications and where they’d like to see boating dollars invested. The agency received 20 grant applications for its Cycle Two grants.

The proposed budget has a repeal of the state's Special Focus Facility program.

The Ohio Senate's version of the proposed state budget would repeal the state's Special Focus Facility program, which provides additional oversight for troubled nursing facilities.