CMS believes that residents who return to the hospital frequently during their nursing home stay for unplanned reasons are less likely to be receiving proper assessments or care. Attempting to widen those included in hospitalization measures, CMS has created a new measure that is comprised of long-stay residents titled: Number of Hospitalizations Per 1,000 Long-Stay Resident Days. (This new measure is NOT a measure we are familiar with for example: Percentage of Short-Stay Residents Who Were ReHospitalized After a Nursing Home Admission or Short-Stay Residents Who Have Had an Out-Patient Emergency Department Visit used for Nursing Home Compare (NHC) Five-Star Quality Rating System.) This new hospitalization measure reports the ratio of unplanned hospitalizations per 1,000 long-stay resident days. Remember, this is a Claims-based measure which includes those residents on traditional Medicare Fee for Service (FFS). Also, it is a long-stay measure which includes those residents in facility for > 100 days.
Read more here about the measures and how the Kansas region stacks up.
