| Subject: | CMS Releases Report Showing Decrease In Nursing Home Restraint Use |
| Category: | Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS)
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| Published: | Wed, 19 Nov 2008 - 10:00 am |
| The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) have released a report titled "Freedom from Unnecessary Physical Restraints: Two Decades of National Progress in Nursing Home Care" which evaluates the efforts to reduce the use of physical restraints after Congressional Passage of the 1987 Nursing Home Reform Act. According to CMS, because of the hard work of practitioners, providers, advocates, and government agencies, the percentage of nursing home residents physically... The full article is available to StayAlert subscribers. Click here for a free trial subscription. |
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