On June 1, 2020 CMS published QSO-20-31-All. It is effective immediately and provides in part as follows: (1) States will need to perform focused infection control surveys (FICS) of 100% of the ...

A year and a half after a federal watchdog blasted the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services over extensive delays in nursing home inspections, year-end data for fiscal year 2023 shows there has ...

Whether you’re a homeowner or renter, pest issues and the structural damages they cause are, unfortunately, a universal experience. A recent Forbes Home survey found that 40% of Americans have ...

On March 23, 2020, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) announced that during the next three weeks, State Survey Agency (SSA) and CMS surveyors will only prioritize and conduct surveys ...

Nursing homes across the country are still being hit with frequent Focused Infection Control surveys, nine months after the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services announced that surveyors should ...

The following article is written by Tom Jordan, RN, BS, CIC, director of infection prevention for Sentri7 from Pharmacy OneSource, part of Wolters Kluwer Health. The Joint Commission has upped the ...

Sami Allen is the managing editor at Forbes Home, with over seven years of experience in the home space and 10 years of editing experience. Sami Allen is the managing editor at Forbes Home, with over ...

The use of online surveys to collect responses from healthy people during outbreak investigations has been tested by researchers in Canada. In foodborne outbreak investigations, case-control and ...

Results will be printed in the August edition of Commercial Integrator + Security Sales & Integration. And, of course, online on CommercialIntegrator.com. By taking the survey, you contribute to a ...

While down very slightly from 2023, payments fraud remains elevated, according to the 2025 AFP Payments Fraud and Control Survey Report ROCKVILLE, Md., April 15, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Seventy-nine ...

Many organizations are becoming overwhelmed with the volumes of unstructured information -- audio, video, graphics, social media messages -- that falls outside the purview of their "traditional" ...