Nursing homes in AZ, MS, NY and WI had until May 1, 2009 to apply for participation in the Nursing Home Value-Based Purchasing demonstration project. Award letters are expected to be sent out around June 1st 2009 to 50 selected nursing homes in each state. Each nursing home then has 30 days from the date on their acceptance letter to accept. The project will begin in the summer and last for three years.
Even if your nursing home is not participating in CMS's demonstration project, you can still benefit by learning more about it. If the program is successful, it will be expanded to more states and participation will likely eventually become mandatory. Understand the quality measures used in the project and identify areas of improvement for your facility now so you'll be ready. This will give you the advantage of extra time that your competitors might not have had.
For more information about the demonstration or the quality measures used, visit http://www.nhvbp.com or contact Enovasis Healthcare Solutions.
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the link above is broken : (
ReplyDeleteThanks Steve, I fixed the link. Sorry about that!
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