The CMS Civil Money Penalty Reinvestment Program (CMPRP) is a three-year effort focused on:
- Improve dementia care
- Reduce adverse events
- Improve staffing quality, such as reducing turnover, improving staff retention and enhancing general staff performance.
Toward this end the CMPRP is creating a series of toolkits. These include:
- Nursing Home Staff Competency Assessment. This toolkit is a self-assessment tool to evaluate the behavioral and technical competencies of frontline and management staff.
- Nursing Home Employee Satisfaction Survey
- Coming soon -Guide to Improving Nursing Home Employee Satisfaction
The Nursing Home Employee Satisfaction Survey and the Nursing Home Staff Competency Assessment are both available now for download on the CMPRP website. When you download materials, save the file to your desktop to be able to use all the functions.
CMS has conveyed that the CMPRP tools and resources are not mandatory and using these tools does not guarantee compliance with Medicare and Medicaid participation requirements. The use of the tools is meant to assist facilities in building on a culture of quality.
In the meantime, if you have questions about the CMPRP, email CMP-info@cms.hhs.gov.
