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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
President Joe Biden outlined a broad set of policies aimed at improving nursing home care during his State of the Union address in March.
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 proposed budget has a repeal of the state's Special Focus Facility program.