Nursing Home Compare “3.0” - Five Star Quality Rating System - Expanded and Strengthened
Guidance for Improvements to Nursing Home Compare. Includes Quality Measures (QMs) for nursing homes’ use of antipsychotic medication in residents without diagnoses of schizophrenia, Huntington’s disease, or Tourette syndrome in the Five Star calculations.
Issued by: Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS)
Issue Date: February 13, 2015
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