The assumption is that all the accrediting organizations and CMS will be looking more deeply at Emergency Management standards starting this November. On Sept. 16, 2016, the Centers for Medicare & ...

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) released a memo that explains the new training requirements for skilled nursing facilities imposed by the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act ...

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) released to the public on Dec. 5, 2022, new training materials (Training Materials) on the Emergency Medical Treatment and Labor Act (EMTALA) ...

CMS Administrator Seema Verma at a July press conference. An infection control training program aimed at stopping the spread of COVID-19 in nursing homes is now available for frontline facility ...

Nursing homes that participate in infection control training will be eligible for a portion of the $5 billion in additional pandemic relief promised Wednesday by the White House, health officials say.