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Design for Nursing Home Compare Five-Star Quality Rating System: Technical Users Guide February 2018 Note: On November 28, 2017 the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) instituted a new Health Inspection process along with an entirely new set of tags . Beginning in February 2018, CMS will not use deficiencies cited on surveys on or after November 28, 2017 in calculating the health inspection rating for the Nursing Home Compare Five-Star Quality Rating System for a period of 12 months to allow sufficient survey results to accumulate from the new-process surveys.

CMS calculates a total weighted health inspection score for each facility (including any repeat revisits) . Note that a lower survey score corresponds to fewer deficiencies and revisits, and thus better performance on the health inspection domain. In calculating the total weighted score, more recent standard surveys are

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