Nursing home not able to admit medicare patients

Go to Nursing Home Compare. You can find the survey results there. It is a drastic step to close a place to medicare admissions.

Well, my facility was barred for a deficiency in diabetes management that did NOT result in actual harm to anyone. The bar was cleared up quickly.

You really need to find out why they can't admit medicare patients. There could be many reasons.

Is the facility full of private pay residents?

You can look at any state survey online by going to the medicare website. You can search by town or facility name and it tells you the citations of each facility per year.

Just search state nursing home surveys.

Did you go into Immediate Jeopardy? I've known places that got G tags and weren't closed to Medicare admits.

It might not be a life or death situation: If a facility does not correct or submit a plan of correction for the deficiencies from state before they do a follow up visit, the facility can be fined and lose their right to accept medicare pts, which is a major source of revenue. It could be a bunch of little tags or more severe tages, it just has to do with how the administrators responded to it. If the place is not motivated or organized enough to correct the deficiencies I would stay away, sounds like a mess.

We must have, as we were closed to Medicare admissions.

I wasn't working IN the NH at the time.

Are you sure you are closed to ALL Medicare admissions? A couple months ago my facility learned that we couldn't accept certain admissions that we normally would have due to a change in Medicare reimbursement. There wasn't anything that we did wrong, just we wouldn't get paid for it anymore so we had to turn away admissions even though we were low census.