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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.
inspections, the highest scope-severity combination is used. Deficiencies cited on focused infection control surveys are treated slightly differe ntly. If two or more infection control inspections cite the same deficiency within a 15-day period, all are included; however, if one or more of these deficiencies was also
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