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Survey & Certification - General Information

Title
Issuance of Revised Appendix P, SOM, Survey Protocol for LTC Facilities
Memo #
06-13
Posting Date
05/01/2006
Fiscal Year
2006
Summary
The purpose of this memorandum is to advise you of revisions we are making to Appendix P of the SOM, Survey Protocol for Long Term Care Facilities. The revisions include adding the Psychosocial Outcome Severity Guide to Part IV Deficiency Determinations, adding Determining Citations of Past Noncompliance at the Time of the Current Survey guide to Task 5, Information Gathering and to Task 6, Information Analysis for Deficiency Determination, and the revision of Tasks 2, 5F, and II.B.3. Also included in the revisions are corrections. All revisions to Appendix P will appear in red italics. The effective date for these revisions is June 1, 2006.