Eldercare Locator, a free service under the U.S. Administration on Aging, has been around for two decades. It maintained a toll-free hotline for older adults and caregivers looking for information about resources with regards to aging. Eldercare Locator has upped its gane. The new call center allows callers to speak...
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Background Checks to be Funded in Six States
Alaska, Connecticut, Delaware, Florida, Missouri and Rhode Island will split the first round of the grant funding from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services for creating comprehensive, streamlined background check systems for long-term care employees. Other states are expected to apply later this month. States will use the funding...
Grant Money Announced to Help People Navigate Long-Term Care
From McKnights: The Department of Health and Human Services announced that $68 million in grant money is available to help seniors, the disabled and their caregivers better understand options for long-term care. Twenty-four states will receive grants designed to strengthen the role of Aging and Disability Resource Centers (ARDCs) in...
CMS Revamps Website to Make It Easier for Seniors to Navigate and Find Information
www.medicare.gov, the Medicare consumer-focused Web site has now been updated to make it easier for seniors and people who care for them to find the information they need about Medicare. The improved Web site provides users with a summary of Medicare benefits, coverage options, rights and protections, and answers to...
Five-Star Rating Asked to be Suspended by 31 State Attorneys General
We have written about the Five-Star rating system in the past, CMS’s latest attempt at ranking and rating nursing facilities. In an interesting twist, a total of 31 state attorneys general sent a letter to the secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services calling for the suspension and...
Some Caveats to the Nursing Home Compare 5 Star Rating System
We have said in the past that the Nursing Home Compare site even before the 5 Star rating was introduced was just a start in evaluating nursing facilities. I will continue to share a myriad of tips I have accumulated for evaluating care homes. That said when looking at the...
Nursing Home Compare
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) rolled out its 5-Star Rating System on Nursing Home Compare, the federal government’s site for consumer research on nursing homes. The rating system is based on information from the last three years of surveys and complaints, staffing information collected at survey and...
CMS Proposes Hotel Rating for Nursing Homes
In a continued effort to separate the good from the bad CMS plans to add a five star rating system to its Nursing Home Compare site. They will decide how many stars each nursing home gets by using data from the past three years of inspections, several measures of quality...
You Can Lead a Senior to Water but…..
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services launched the Medicare Health Support pilot project three years ago hiring eight private disease management firms to set up voluntary chronic care improvement programs for beneficiaries. At its height 150,000 seniors were enrolled in the program. 68,000 beneficiaries still receive services. By using...
You Can Lead a Senior to Water butÛ_..
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services launched the Medicare Health Support pilot project three years ago hiring eight private disease management firms to set up voluntary chronic care improvement programs for beneficiaries. At its height 150,000 seniors were enrolled in the program. 68,000 beneficiaries still receive services. By using...