Inspectors assign nursing homes points depending on the “scope and severity” of deficiencies, and the nursing homes with the most points are identified as candidates. After completing annual health inspections, CMS provides the state agency with the list of five candidates per slot and the state agency nominates the priority facility to receive the “increased scrutiny.” Candidates and SFF nursing homes are compiled after CMS finds deficiencies during these inspections. Once a nursing home becomes an SFF facility, it has a set amount of time to implement a corrective action plan or face losing Medicare and Medicaid funding.ĬMS performs one unannounced health inspection a year and completes evaluations whenever a formal complaint is made against a nursing home. Goodrich said there are 88 SFF slots in the country and five candidates for each slot. In Mississippi, there is only one nursing home that can be named an SFF at a time. The citations report few other residents were affected, and that all citations were corrected October of that same year. The report did not indicate when the incident occurred. Specifically the inspection cites an incident where a resident, who goes unnamed in the report, was found unresponsive and CPR was not administered in a “timely manner.” The resident died. During that inspection, Aurora faced eight health deficiencies, including failing to protect residents from all types of abuse failure to provide basic life support failure to develop a plan that meets all residents’ needs failure to post nurse staffing information daily failure to honor residents’ right to request or refuse treatment failure to implement an infection prevention and control program and failure to provide lab tests when ordered. 13, 2018, the date of the last health inspection. That fine amounted to more than $16,000 on Sept. They really are the poorest performers.”Īccording to the CMS website, Aurora has faced one federal penalty in the last three years. “These (candidates) typically are facilities that have systemic issues with quality and safety. “We provide each state with a list of five facilities that essentially preform the worst on the health inspection surveys,” Kate Goodrich, CMS director of the center for clinical standards and quality, said in a press conference call Wednesday. ![]() Aurora is one of five such nursing homes in Mississippi. Nursing homes listed as candidates are among the lowest performing nursing homes in their states, and potentially could become an SFF facility once the current facility graduates or is terminated from the SFF program. Senators Bob Casey and Pat Toomey requested nursing home SFF candidates be released for public knowledge. The release of previously non-public candidate information came after Pennsylvania U.S. CMS previously only released SFF nursing homes. The Center for Medicare and Medicaid (CMS) released a list of candidate nursing home facilities for SFF, a program designed to rehabilitate poor performing nursing homes under federal scrutiny. The nursing home, located on Emerald Drive, is one of more than 400 nursing homes nationwide that was recognized Monday as a candidate for Special Focus Facility due to a “persistent record of poor care.” Aurora Health and Rehabilitation, a nursing home in East Columbus, is considered one of the lowest-rated nursing homes in the state, according to a report released by the Center for Medicare and Medicaid.
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