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On February 12, The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) announced it was making changes to its Nursing Home Compare 5-Star Quality Rating System, which allows consumers to learn about and compare nursing homes in terms of their performance on surveys (inspections), staffing levels and quality measures. According to CMS, the following changes are being made:
Adding 2 new antipsychotic quality measures - one for long stay residents, the other for short stay residents - to the 5-star calculations. Antipsychotic medication use had previously not been calculated into the rating;