by Proactive LTC Consulting | Aug 5, 2026 | MDS, Medicare, Nursing Home Consultant, Quality Measure, Reimbursement, SNF
FY 2027 SNF Final Rule: What Facilities Need to Know Now CMS has issued the FY 2027 Skilled Nursing Facility Prospective Payment System (SNF PPS) Final Rule. The rule includes a payment update, Quality Reporting Program (QRP) changes, future all-payer MDS reporting...
by Proactive LTC Consulting | Aug 5, 2026 | 5-Star, Nursing, Nursing Home Consultant, Quality, Regulatory, Survey
Risk Based Survey (RBS) Process Starts Sept. 8th— What you Need to Know The long-awaited Risk Based Survey (RBS) process will be launched nationwide beginning September 8, 2026. CMS began testing this process in 2023 in 22 states with over 100 facilities and found...
by Proactive LTC Consulting | Jul 15, 2026 | Abuse, Accidents/Incidents, Care Planning, Compliance, Falls, Family, Legal, Nursing Home Consultant, Person Centered Care, Quality, Safety
Family Communication Challenges: What should you do? Strong communication with families is essential to providing quality resident-centered care. Challenging conversations often occur during times of stress, unexpected changes, or misunderstandings. Effective...
by Proactive LTC Consulting | Jul 15, 2026 | 5-Star, Clinical, Compliance, Mock Survey, Nursing, Nursing Home Consultant, Plan of Correction, QAPI, Regulatory, Survey
Common Reasons Plans of Correction (PoCs) Are Rejected Receiving a Statement of Deficiencies (CMS-2567) is stressful enough. Writing a Plan of Correction (PoC) that satisfies your state survey agency can be equally intimidating. Under CMS regulations (42 CFR...
by Proactive LTC Consulting | Jul 8, 2026 | 5-Star, Compliance, Documentation, F-Tag, Medicare, Medication, Mock Survey, Nursing, Nursing Home Consultant, Regulatory, Survey
F671 Compliance: Medication and Treatment Cart Oversight F 761 Labeling and Storage of Drugs and Biologicals has been cited in over 12% of all surveys through June 2026 with 1,850 deficiencies and currently ranks 5th in the overall deficiencies cited. This is a...
by Proactive LTC Consulting | Jul 1, 2026 | Accidents/Incidents, Audits, Compliance, Documentation, Falls, Medical Review, Medication, Nursing Home Consultant, Person Centered Care, QAPI, Quality, Survey
Top Nursing Documentation Mistakes Impacting Survey Outcomes—And How to Avoid Them Documentation has always been an essential part of resident care, but in today’s regulatory environment, it has become one of the most powerful pieces of evidence surveyors...
