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New Assisted Living Quality Benchmarking Data Available from Data Portal
On January 4, 2024 by Julie Apold
Updated Data Portal benchmark reports are available for assisted living quality and services measures. These are one of several benchmarking reports available for LeadingAge Minnesota members in the Data Portal.
Upload Assisted Living Quality Data to Data Portal through RTasks
On October 12, 2023 by Julie Apold
LeadingAge Minnesota has partnered with RTasks by ResiDex to coordinate assisted living quality measures.
Five Star Quality Measure Rating Thresholds Increase in April
On March 24, 2022 by Julie Apold
Periodically, CMS raises the Quality Measure (QM) ratings’ thresholds in the Five Star Quality Rating System to promote continuously quality improvement. CMS is implementing a new process for raising QM rating thresholds by increasing the threshold for the average rate of improvement in QM scores by 50% every six months. For example, if there is an average rate of improvement of 2%, the QM rating thresholds would be raised 1%.
CMS Quality Measure Improvements
On April 10, 2019 by Julie Apold
The Center for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) announced changes to Nursing Home Compare and the Five Star Rating system that include several changes to the Quality Measure (QM) Domain. Changes to the performance thresholds and methodology in the QM Domain may result in many nursing homes experiencing a decline in their ratings until further improvements are put in place within their organizations. Key QM Domain changes include:
Updated Quality Measures (QM) User’s Manual Released
On February 26, 2019 by Sue Boyd
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) surprised all aging services providers on Feb. 21 by releasing version 12 of the MDS 3.0 Quality Measures (QM) User’s Manual. The most significant revisions focused on these key areas: