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Nursing Home Staffing Accountability Act of 2002

Introduced: August 1, 2002 Introduced by: Grassley, Chuck Republican · Iowa See on congress.gov
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Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
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 Plain-English summary Congressional Research Service
Nursing Home Staffing Accountability Act of 2002 - Amends titles XVIII (Medicare) and XIX (Medicaid) of the Social Security Act to require the information posted daily by skilled nursing facilities and nursing facilities for each nursing shift to include information regarding nurse staffing with respect to beds made available by reason of an agreement between the Secretary of Health and Human Services and a hospital to use its inpatient hospital facilities to furnish services which, if furnished by a skilled nursing facility, would constitute extended care services.

Requires a skilled nursing facility and a nursing facility to submit electronically to the Secretary at least quarterly the nursing staff data posted daily for each nursing shift. Requires the Secretary to make such data publicly available, including on an Internet website. Requires a periodic audit of such data.

Provides that, for as long as the Secretary publishes quality measures to help the public compare the quality of care that nursing facilities provide, these quality measures shall include a quality measure for nursing staff.

What's happening now August 1, 2002

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.

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