New technology has made the employee survey process “smarter” than ever. Natural language processing and sentiment analysis tools enable organizations to glean accurate, continuous feedback from their ...

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services will be testing truncated survey processes starting in 2024, part of an effort to make on-site inspections more efficient as the agency deals with multiple ...

CMS is launching a streamlined survey and certification process for psychiatric hospitals, beginning in March. Psychiatric hospitals now undergo two separate on-site compliance surveys, one by the ...

Nursing homes care for the most vulnerable members of our society. Those responsible for the coordination and delivery of care in nursing homes should absolutely be held accountable for clinical ...

The Social Security Act mandates that all nursing homes participating in the Medicare program—currently more than 14,000—undergo an annual recertification inspection, known as a standard survey, to ...

The employee survey is a commonly used HR tool to gauge employee sentiment around a wide range of issues related to work experience — from management practices to development opportunities, to ...

With CMS approval, surveys for initial accreditation to participate in Medicare resumed in May, as they could be done virtually—offering the greatest protection against COVID-19, and less pressure and ...

On January 13, 2020, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) announced a new streamlined survey and certification process for psychiatric hospitals as part of the agency’s “Patients over ...