CMS Releases Revised Dementia Care Survey Tools

Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services recently encouraged that updated survey materials should be used by skilled nursing facilities to assess dementia care practices. Survey topics include quality assurance, dementia care leadership and care policies via the newly revised Focused Dementia Care Survey Tools. The guidelines resulted from a 2014 pilot program and subsequent expansion targeting dementia care and antipsychotic medications. The public release was spurred by stakeholder feedback, with the intent that SNFs use them as a tool to self-assess their dementia care programs.

This was reported by McKnight’s on December 2, 2015.

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