tci Medicare Compliance & Reimbursement - 2005 Issue 25

Long-Term Care: QIOs Will Target Nursing Home Turnover

CMS wants turnover rate cut 15 percent before 2008.Quality improvement organizations will begin their work this summer toward reducing the rate of staff turnover in nursing homes. The effort is part of a new three-year contract with the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services that calls for QIOs to cut nursing assistant turnover rates by at least 15 percent in over 2,000 nursing homes by late 2007. Staff turnover in many facilities exceeds 50 percent annually. Reducing nursing aide turnover by at least 15 percent over the next three years would save about $27,000...

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