CMS Announces Membership of Independent Coronavirus Commission on Safety and Quality in Nursing Homes
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) has announced the members of the independent Coronavirus Commission on Safety and Quality in Nursing Homes.
CMS announced that the MITRE Corporation, who is facilitating the Commission's work, has published the membership of the independent Coronavirus Commission on Safety and Quality in Nursing Homes. The Commission will conduct a comprehensive assessment of the overall response to the COVID-19 pandemic in nursing homes. The 25-member Commission represents a variety of expertise, affiliations, backgrounds, and geography, including resident advocates, infectious disease experts, directors and administrators of nursing homes, academics, state authorities, clinicians, a medical ethicist and a nursing home resident. Terry Fulmer, PhD, RN, FAAN, president of The John A. Hartford Foundation, is one of the appointees.
Three key areas of focus for the Commission include:
- Ensuring nursing home residents are protected from COVID-19 and improving the responsiveness of care delivery to maximize the quality of life for residents;
- Strengthening efforts to enable rapid and effective identification and mitigation of COVID-19 transmission (and other infectious disease) in nursing homes; and
- Enhancing strategies to improve compliance with infection control policies in response to COVID-19.
Based on its assessment, the Commission will make recommendations on actions and best practices for immediate and future actions. CMS anticipates the Commission’s final report in fall of 2020.
To read CMS's press release, click here.
To read MITRE's press release, click here.
To learn more about the Commission, click here.