Today, CMS publicly released new Quality Measure data and the new staffing data based on PBJ in the Nursing Home 5-Star System. CMS also released the new technical manual for staffing which will allows LeadingAge to begin programing for the updated 5-star analysis reports.

Members are encouraged to check Nursing Home Compare to see any impact to their own star rating. LeadingAge is working diligently on the programming to produce updated 5-star reports for members as well as an impact analysis to see how the star-ratings changed as a result the PBJ data for staffing and overall.