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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. During that time, the health inspection rating will be based on results from the two most recent standard surveys prior to November 28, 2017 as well as deficiencies arising from complaint investigations during the two-year period prior to November 28, 2017. Standard surveys and complaint surveys that occurred on or after November 28, 2017 (under the new survey process) will be displayed on the Nursing Home Compare website but will not be utilized to calculate the health inspection rating during the twelve-month period beginning in February 2018.

findings from the most recent 36 months of complaint investigations and focused infection control surveys . All deficiency findings are weighted by scope and severity. The health inspections rating also takes into account the number of revisits required to ensure that deficiencies identified during health inspection survey s have been corrected

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