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New resources to help LTC facility staff work with LGBT older persons and their families

November 26, 2014

The Center for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has recently issued a Survey and Certification Tool, with an introduction by Secretary Greenlee of the Administration for Community Living (ACL) within the Department of Health and Human Services. The focus of the video learning modules is to provide useful information to long-term care facility staff about the power of assumptions and prejudices, both known and unknown, that may make older LGBT people feel fearful and afraid, so that such fears won't cause older LGBT patients to retreat to a “closeted lifestyle” in order to receive necessary long-term care services.

New CMS memo: MDS 3.0 Discharge assessments must be completed when a resident transfers from a Medicare and/or Medicaid certified bed to a non-certified bed

November 25, 2014

CMS has issued a new memo to State Survey Directors reinforcing the requirement for the completion of discharge assessments when a resident is transferred from a Medicare-and/or Medicaid-certified bed (i.e., a bed located within a Skilled Nursing Facility (SNF) or a Nursing Facility (NF) to a non-certified bed.