Cathedral Health Care Center is proud to announce it has earned a 4-Star Overall Quality Rating from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) through the nationally recognized Five-Star ...

With the 2026 Iowa legislative session just days away, renewed debate is expected over water quality, nitrate runoff and ...

Optical 3D metrology enables fast, non-contact surface roughness measurement of defects and roughness for precise ...

The CMS is proposing to overhaul the Medicare Advantage star ratings system, including by culling a dozen quality measures and removing a health equity reward. In a proposed rule released Tuesday, the ...

Older adults with dementia who may benefit from antipsychotic medications are being harmed by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services’ (CMS) Long-Stay Antipsychotic Medication quality measure.

We have rehospitalization measures. We have resident quality of life,” she said. “We want them to have a successful discharge home. We don’t want them ending up back in the hospital because some of ...

In nursing homes, quality measures (QMs) serve as key indicators of resident outcomes and care effectiveness. Derived primarily from Minimum Data Set (MDS) assessments and Medicare claims, these ...

Structural racism, poverty, and inequities in housing, education, and employment have created significant gaps in health outcomes. 1 Unequal rates of disease, treatment, and mortality ...