{"id":"FED-157","kind":"order","level":"federal","jurisdiction":"United States (nursing homes; State and local officials)","state":"","metro":"","industry":"","agency":"","eco":"","issuer":"CMS, Quality, Safety \u0026 Oversight Group","authority":"Recommendations to State and local officials; survey authority","instrument":"QSO-20-30-NH, Nursing Home Reopening Recommendations for State and Local Officials (May 18, 2020; REVISED Mar. 10, 2021; expired Mar. 10, 2021)","title":"QSO-20-30-NH, Nursing Home Reopening Recommendations for State and Local Officials","dateIssued":"2020-05-18","effective":"2020-05-18","end":"2021-03-10 (expired on revision of QSO-20-39-NH)","startDate":"2020-05-18","endDate":"2021-03-10","quarters":["2020Q2","2020Q3","2020Q4","2021Q1"],"types":["HC","GATH","CAP"],"addressees":["State and local officials; State Survey Agencies; nursing homes"],"clause":"Recommendations for State and Local Officials: CMS is providing recommendations to help determine the level of mitigation needed to prevent the transmission of COVID19 in nursing homes. The recommendations cover the following items: Criteria for relaxing certain restrictions and mitigating the risk of resurgence: Factors to inform decisions for relaxing nursing home restrictions through a phased approach. Visitation and Service Considerations: Considerations allowing visitation and services in each phase.... Given the critical importance in limiting COVID-19 exposure in nursing homes, decisions on relaxing restrictions should be made with careful review of a number of facility-level, community, and State factors/orders","enforcement":"Recommendations; implemented by State orders and directives and by survey","functions":["VS visitation phases","DN communal dining and group activities by phase","HR non-essential personnel entry by phase (salons, therapy, volunteers)","RS admissions"],"notes":"The federal three-phase reopening template for nursing homes (baseline testing, 28-day case-free intervals) that State health departments adopted by order in summer 2020; pleaded with the State orders that made it mandatory.","sourceUrl":"https://www.cms.gov/files/document/qso-20-30-nh.pdf","snapshot":"","fileExists":true,"fileBytes":473431,"grade":"primary","character":"","description":"","collection":"FED-A","url":"/library/FED-157","exhibitUrl":"/exhibit/FED-157","citation":"CMS, Quality, Safety \u0026 Oversight Group, QSO-20-30-NH, Nursing Home Reopening Recommendations for State and Local Officials (May 18, 2020; REVISED Mar. 10, 2021; expired Mar. 10, 2021) (Ex. FED-157)","stateName":"","related":["FED-161","FED-165","FED-099","FED-097","FED-098","FED-164"]}