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GAO-11-403R 1 (2011-04-06)

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          April 6, 2011

          The Honorable Herb Kohl
          Chairman
          Special Committee on Aging
          United States Senate

          The Honorable Charles E. Grassley
          Ranking Member
          Committee on the Judiciary
          United States Senate

          Subject: Nursing Home Quality: Implementation of the Quality Indicator Survey

          This report formally transmits our briefing slides that describe the approach that the Centers
          for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) is taking to implement the Quality Indicator Survey
          (QIS) nationally (see enc. I). CMS developed the QIS-a new electronic process used to
          conduct nursing home inspections-to provide a more reliable assessment of the quality of
          care in nursing homes. You asked us to review the implementation of the QIS. As you
          requested, these slides provide background information on the nursing home inspection
          process and describe the approach CMS is taking to implement the QIS. These slides were
          used to brief your staff on March 28, 2011. We will address other issues related to
          implementation of the QIS in a subsequent report. We provided a draft of this report to the
          Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and the agency provided technical
          comments, which we incorporated as appropriate.



          As agreed with your offices, unless you publicly announce the contents of this report earlier,
          we plan no further distribution until 30 days from the report date. At that time, we will send
          copies of this report to the Secretary of HHS, the Administrator of CMS, and relevant
          congressional committees. In addition, the report will be available at no charge on the GAO
          Website at http://www.gao.gov.


GAO-11-403R Nursing Home Quality Survey

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