MDS Alert
Quality of Care:
How Your State Ranks In Nursing Home Quality Measures
Published on Fri Mar 15, 2013 
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CMS releases the latest quality data for short- and long-stays.
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) released the Nursing Home Quality Measures (NHQM) data for the third quarter of 2012 and posted the data on the Nursing Home Compare website (www.medicare.gov/NHCompare/home.asp).
Analysis: The American Health Care Association’s (AHCA) research department has posted a state-by-state summary of the data on its website at www.ahcancal.org/research_data/quality/Documents/NH_QUALITY_MEASURE_2012Q3_FINALREPORT.pdf.
According to the AHCA’s analysis, here’s what the overall United States NHQM data look like for Q3 2012:
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