Ensuring Beneficiary Health & Safety In Group Homes Through State Implementation Of Comprehensive Compliance Oversight

This joint report by the Administration for Community Living (ACL), the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Office of Inspector General (OIG) and the HHS Office of Civil Rights (OCR) was released in January 2018. The goal was to provide suggested model practices to the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) and states for comprehensive compliance oversight of group homes to help ensure better health and safety outcomes for people with intellectual/developmental disability (I/DD). The report also provides suggestions for how CMS can assist states when serious health and safety issues arise among group home residents . . .