DQA hosted a webinar for Nursing Home providers and stakeholders earlier this week. During this webinar, DQA provided information on Phase 3 updates to the federal regulations and updates to State Operations Manual Chapter 5 related to complaints and facility reported incidents.

The webinar recording is now available HERE. The webinar is about 90 minutes long.

Discussed during the webinar were items including:

• Changes to SOM Ch. 5
• Infection Control
• Pharmacy Services/Potential Inaccurate Diagnosis and/or Assessment
• Mental Health/Substance Use Disorder
• Food and Nutrition
• Psychosocial Severity Guide
• Abuse, Neglect, Exploitation
• PBJ
• Nurse Staffing
• Trauma Informed Care
• QAPI
• Quality of Life
• Quality of Care
• Physician Services
• Physical Environment
• Training Requirements