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Train Surveyors Centrally, Commenters Urge

Published on Fri Oct 29, 2021

But education can’t happen overnight. You can’t have survey consistency unless surveyors are trained accordingly. So say many commenters on the home health proposed rule for 2022, which contains a number of significant hospice survey changes. “Disparate deficiency citations between [Accrediting Organization] surveyors and [State Survey Agency] surveyors may, in part, be attributed to differences in surveyor training and education,” [...]
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