Some states that aren’t regularly testing surveyors have seen significant spread of coronavirus
By Anna Wilde Mathews of The WSJ. Excerpt:
"More than half the states, including Texas, Pennsylvania and Ohio, don’t require their own inspectors to be tested for Covid-19 before going inside nursing homes, despite concerns that asymptomatic visitors could pose a risk to residents.
The federal government said in June that states needed to complete special infection control-focused examinations of the approximately 15,000 federally-certified nursing homes by late August, or risk losing some federal funding. But the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, or CMS, the agency that oversees nursing-home inspections, didn’t require states to test workers who perform site visits."
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