Washington Post Article: For the First Time, the U.S. Will Reward Nursing Homes for Controlling the Spread of Infectious Disease
The Washington Post has published an article, "For the First Time, the U.S. Will Reward Nursing Homes for Controlling the Spread of Infectious Disease."
The article talks about how the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has announced that it will share $523 million in incentive payments to over 9,000 nursing homes as a reward, tying, for the first time, financial incentives to infection-control measures.
“These performance payments are an important stimulus for nursing homes fighting to improve their performance in a dire situation,” Terry Fulmer, president of the John A. Hartford Foundation and a member of a commission on coronavirus safety in nursing homes, said in a prepared statement. “What is equally important is that we learn from facilities where infection rates were well controlled as well as learn from those facilities where infection control was unsuccessful.”
To read the article, click here.
To go to the HHS press release, click here.
This story ran in several news outlets, including The Seattle Times, The Arkansas Democrat-Gazette, The Philadelphia Inquirer, msn.com, Press From and Union Leader.
