White House Fact Sheet: Protecting Seniors by Improving Safety and Quality of Care in the Nation’s Nursing Homes
Both the pandemic and the increase in natural disasters have demonstrated how critical proactive emergency preparedness is to keeping residents of nursing homes safe.
Center for Medicare & Medicaid Services(CMS) is examining and considering changes to emergency preparedness requirements…
The National Imperative to Improve Nursing Home Quality: Honoring Our Commitment to Residents, Families, and Staff
The 2016 CMS requirements for participation require long-term care facilities to maintain a comprehensive emergency preparedness program. Additionally, regulations expanded emergency plan requirements to consider items such as evacuation procedures with a resident/staff tracking system.
It is essential for nursing homes to prepare for serious weather events most likely to occur in the part of the U.S. in which they are located.
Although evacuation is a significant risk…evacuation may still be necessary when disasters pose an immediate risk to a facility and its residents.
Experience during disasters such as hurricanes Katrina, Sandy, and Ida, for example, revealed that nursing home facilities often lacked clear guidance for evacuation procedures…
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National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. 2022. The National Imperative to Improve Nursing Home Quality: Honoring Our Commitment to Residents, Families, and Staff. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. https://doi.org/10.17226/26526.