{"id":13159,"date":"2019-05-03T07:54:50","date_gmt":"2019-05-03T11:54:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=13159"},"modified":"2019-05-03T07:54:50","modified_gmt":"2019-05-03T11:54:50","slug":"short-staffed-nursing-homes-see-drop-in-medicare-ratings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=13159","title":{"rendered":"Short-Staffed Nursing Homes See Drop In Medicare Ratings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(By Jordan Rau and Elizabeth Lucas for Kaiser Health News)<\/p>\n<p>The federal government accelerated its crackdown on nursing homes that go days without a registered nurse by downgrading the rankings of a tenth of the nation\u2019s homes on Medicare\u2019s consumer website, new records show.<\/p>\n<p>In its update in April to Nursing Home Compare, the Centers for Medicare &amp; Medicaid Services gave its lowest star rating for staffing \u2014 one star on its five-star scale \u2014 to 1,638 homes. Most were downgraded because their payroll records reported no registered-nurse hours at all for four days or more, while the remainder failed to submit their payroll records or sent data that couldn\u2019t be verified through an audit.\u00a0 Continue reading <a href=\"https:\/\/khn.org\/news\/short-staffed-nursing-homes-see-drop-in-medicare-ratings\/?utm_campaign=KHN%3A%20First%20Edition&amp;utm_source=hs_email&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_content=72330790&amp;_hsenc=p2ANqtz-8PNZjcC27UNWkADtPmvasGML3ELLB17q077sNMIhm4Q8is5dui8bWXTgJIUitBIvtn4inuzt1fi4ODPdLldzAVx27uoQ&amp;_hsmi=72330790\">article here&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Kaiser Health News is a nonprofit national health policy news service that is part of the nonpartisan Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/khn-logo1.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-899\" src=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/khn-logo1-300x156.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"156\" srcset=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/khn-logo1-300x156.png 300w, https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/khn-logo1-1024x533.png 1024w, https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/khn-logo1.png 1600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<pre>Notice: The link provided above connects readers to the full content of the posted article. The URL (internet address) for this link is valid on the posted date; medicarereport.org cannot guarantee the duration of the link\u2019s validity. Also, the opinions expressed in these postings are the viewpoints of the original source and are not explicitly endorsed by AMAC, Inc.; the AMAC Foundation, Inc.; or medicarereport.org.<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(By Jordan Rau and Elizabeth Lucas for Kaiser Health News) The federal government accelerated its crackdown on nursing homes that<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32,21,6,24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13159","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cms","category-health-care-finance","category-medicare-general","category-nursing-homes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13159","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13159"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13159\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13160,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13159\/revisions\/13160"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13159"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13159"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13159"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}