No easing of inspections for nursing homes seen
Proposed federal regulations that would have reduced the frequency of nursing home inspections will not be implemented.
President Bush has rejected a proposal from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) to soften nursing home inspection requirements and limit penalties. Previous reports indicated that the president favored allowing so-called "good" nursing homes to be inspected less frequently.
Under the rejected proposed CMS plan, "bad" nursing homes eventually would have been inspected twice as often as those that had good compliance records and would have been subject to stricter inspection criteria.
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