Introduction

  The Chairman, U.S. Senate Special Committee on Aging, and the Ranking Member, Senate Committee on Finance, have asked the Government Accountability Office (GAO) to study and report on the process for identifying and citing nursing home deficiencies. GAO is requesting that survey agency directors in all 50 states and the District of Columbia complete this brief questionnaire about the federal nursing home health survey process in their states.

To complete this questionnaire we ask that you coordinate as needed with survey agency staff, such as training coordinators, quality assurance reviewers, and district and regional office managers. We understand some questions may be difficult to answer when policies and procedures vary between regions and district offices, but in these cases we request your professional judgment in providing an answer that best reflects the most commonly applied policies and procedures for the nursing home health surveyors in this state. Unless otherwise noted, your responses should be based on the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) traditional survey methodology, not the Quality Indicator Survey (QIS) Demonstration Project.

Please submit the completed questionnaire within 2 weeks.
 

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TIP: Although we expect this questionnaire to take between 35 and 45 minutes to complete, you may keep a section open in the questionnaire for up to 2 hours while responding to the questions. If you need more time, you may log out of the questionnaire by clicking on the "Save responses and close" button. This step will save your responses. When you log in again later, the questionnaire will start where you left off. The two-hour time limit starts anew when you move to a new section in the questionnaire.

 


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