Nursing Home Federal Requirements: Guidelines to Surveyors and Survey Protocols

Allen's Nursing Home Federal Requirements, now updated and revised in a user-friendly Eighth Edition, is a vital nursing home administration text. Without exaggeration, it can be called the bible of federal nursing home requirements.

-Christopher Cherney, San Jose State University
Darlene Yee-Melichar, Professor of Gerontology, San Francisco State University
Educational Gerontology

[The book] lists all the federal requirements that are evaluated by state surveyors during the annual survey visit to nursing homes and for complaint visits. The exhibit section contains forms used by surveyors to gather data during the survey visit. Visually, the format makes the regulations easy to read. If nursing home staff used the book to prepare for a survey, they would be well prepared.

-Marcia Flesner, PhD, RN, MHCA
University of Missouri-Columbia
From Doody's Book Reviews

Nursing homes are now the most highly regulated environments in the United States, in the service of maximizing the quality of each resident's life. This user-friendly guide has been updated to provide all of the requisite information needed by nursing home staff to prepare for a visit from federal surveyors. It provides the most current federal guidelines and the procedures used by federal surveyors in certifying facilities for participation in Medicare and Medicaid funding. It describes every aspect and service of a nursing home that is subject to inspection and includes the nearly 20% of new requirements established during the past three years, with an emphasis on the new Minimum Data Set 3.0.

The guide not only presents federal requirements and explanatory guidelines but also explains how to best interpret these guidelines so nursing home staff can be optimally prepared for a survey visit. It reflects changes in regulations regarding end-of-life care, nasogastric tube regulations, and rights to establish advance directives. The guide also provides information straight from CMS's Internet-Only Manual.

New Features of Eighth Edition:

• Describes how to best use the updated manual
• Focuses on Minimum Data Set 3.0
• Explains clearly how to interpret the new requirements, 20% of which have been updated
• Presents new quality measures
• Includes new CMS forms
• Reflects changes in regulations regarding end-of-life care, nasogastric tube regulations, and rights to establish advance directives


Author: James E. Allen
Publisher: Springer Publishing Company
Published: 07/09/2014
Pages: 672
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 3.47lbs
Size: 11.10h x 8.49w x 1.05d
ISBN: 9780826171245

About the Author
Allen, James E.: -

James E. Allen, PhD, MSPH, NHA, IP, is President of Long Term Care Education.com, a national resource website for information on the long-term care field. He is also President of ANCCceus-Nursing Education.com, a nationally approved CEUS for nurses, and Professor, Health Policy and Administration Emeritus, School of Public Health, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Dr. Allen has 30+ years' experience teaching and conducting research in the field of health care administration, and has published 30 journal articles, over 100 book reviews, and five books. Dr. Allen serves as an expert witness for over 15 law firms in a dozen states across the U.S.