Federal Program Helps Nursing Home Residents Move Home
Once someone enters a nursing home, it isn't always easy to move out again . . .
Read moreNew Obama-era rules designed to give nursing home residents more control of their care are gradually going into effect. The rules give residents more options regarding meals and visitation as well as make changes to discharge and grievance procedures.
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid finalized the rules -- the first comprehensive update to nursing home regulations since 1991 -- in November 2016. The first group of new rules took effect in November; the rest will be phased in over the next two years.
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Here are some of the new rules now in effect:
CMS also enacted a rule forbidding nursing homes from entering into binding arbitration agreements with residents or their representatives before a dispute arises. However,a nursing home association sued to block the new rule and a U.S. district court has granted an injunction temporarily preventing CMS from implementing it. The Trump Administration is reportedly planning to lift this ban on nursing home arbitration clauses.
In November 2017, rules regarding facility assessment, psychotropic drugs and medication review, and care plans, among others, will go into effect. The final set of regulations covering infection control and ethics programs will take effect in November 2019.
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