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Nursing Home Online Reports Expanded.
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Health Data Management
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June 1, 2008
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The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services now will include on its Nursing Home Compare Web site whether facilities have been on its Special Focus Facility list.
The agency last fall began the SFF initiative by publishing a list of Medicare and Medicaid participating nursing homes that have a history of serious quality of care problems and had failed to show improvement. Earlier this year it expanded the list and included the category they fell in, such as new additions to the list, improved, improving, recently removed, or no longer approved by Medicare and ...