The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) issued two significant guidance documents on March 11, 2026 – a Quality, Safety, & Oversight (QSO) Memorandum and comprehensive revisions to State ...

An 18-month program combining leadership training and quality assurance education is being credited with reducing turnover and improving resident safety and quality of life. The Moving Forward ...

A feasible path forward would be to treat sustained or unexpected functional decline as a trigger for quality review, much as falls are today. Facilities already conduct quality assurance and ...

While providers aren’t required to follow OIG recommendations, a compliance program based on their guidance can spare facilities future headaches, since many wind up becoming federal regulations. OIG ...

Living donor kidney transplantation (LDKT) provides superior outcomes for patients with end-stage kidney disease (ESKD) but remains underutilized due to persistent barriers including donor-recipient ...

The Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems (CAHPS) survey is a vital tool for measuring home health patient experiences. However, these surveys are often complex and can be unreliable ...

The Africa Program achieves its mission through in-depth research that offers practical solutions to key challenges in US-Africa relations. The Africa Program's flagship initiatives include the ...

In a November 1 press release, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) announced new baseline health and safety requirements for hospitals and Critical Access Hospitals (CAHs) providing ...

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) Nov. 1 released its calendar year (CY) 2025 outpatient prospective payment system (OPPS) and ambulatory surgical center (ASC) final rule. The rule ...

For some nursing homes, quality assurance and performance improvement (QAPI) meetings serve merely as a checkbox for requirements, but they haven’t driven changes to improve care quality outcomes. On ...