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Prevent Findings At Your Facility Of The Top 15 Most-Cited Health Deficiencies
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Watch out: Comprehensive care plan F-tag ranks fifth on the list.
Recently released nursing home data provides you with valuable insights on what F-tags surveyors are most often citing. Pay attention to the most common health deficiency citations so your facility won’t become part of these statistics.
On March 25, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) released the Nursing Home Data Compendium 2015 Edition, which compiled data from 2005 through 2014. Among a plethora of other nursing home data, the Compendium lists the top 15 cited health deficiencies.
“The list is full of ‘gotcha’ tags that can be highly cited,” according to a March 28 blog posting by the CMS Compliance Group Inc. Here are the top 15 deficiency citations for 2005 through 2014:
Source: www.cms.gov/Medicare/Provider-Enrollment-and-Certification/CertificationandComplianc/NHs.html.
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