Nursing homes across the country are still being hit with frequent Focused Infection Control surveys, nine months after the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services announced that surveyors should ...
The use of online surveys to collect responses from healthy people during outbreak investigations has been tested by researchers in Canada. In foodborne outbreak investigations, case-control and ...
Focused infection control surveys are no longer part of the standard survey process, federal officials announced in a memo to state directors Wednesday. Any COVID-19 or infection control concerns ...
BOISE — The Idaho Department of Health and Welfare has completed 115 infection control surveys in Idaho’s 82 nursing homes, identifying 66 citations that needed correction. The other 49 surveys found ...
In a January 4, 2021 revision to a June 1, 2020 Quality, Safety and Oversight memorandum, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) revised the criteria for focused infection control (FIC) ...