The following questions relate to your experience with your state's nursing home website. As of January 1, 2018, federal law requires that every state have a consumer oriented website with useful information on nursing homes.

The website should be accessible from the main page of the website of your State Medicaid agency and State Survey Agency. In addition, CMS has issued a chart with all of the state website links.  We have posted it on our website for your reference here: http://nursinghome411.org/chart-of-state-nursing-home-consumer-website-addresses-agency-contacts-2017/. 

Note: In order to complete this survey you will need to have viewed your state's nursing home website.

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* 1. Please tell us your state.

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* 2. Please tell us the website address for your state's nursing home website, if you have it.

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* 3. Federal law requires that your state's nursing home website is "easily accessible from the main page of the website of both the State Medicaid agency and the State Survey Agency."  Did you find your state's website easily accessible?

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* 4. Federal law requires that your state's website be "consumer friendly" and "written and conveyed in a manner that is welcoming and readily understandable to consumers and the public." Did you find your state's website easily accessible?

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* 5. Federal law requires that your state's website be "searchable" and "[p]rovide search capabilities that allow a consumer to identify any... [nursing home]  in the State by name and geographic location." Did you find your state's website easily searchable?

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* 6. Federal law requires that your state's website include "links and information about alternative long term care services available in the State, including services provided under Home- and Community-based Service programs." Did you find information about alternatives to nursing home placement on your state's website?

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* 7. Federal law requires that your state's website be "comprehensive," including providing the survey results (Statement of Deficiencies) "for each recertification survey and each complaint survey performed in the last three years...."  Did you find viewable and downloadable Statements of Deficiencies on your state's website?

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* 8. Federal law requires that your state's website include "Plans of Correction." These are the written plans that a facility is required to develop when it has been cited for a deficiency. It outlines what the facility promises to do to correct the identified problem(s).  Did you find Plans of Correction on your state's website?

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* 9. Federal law requires that your state's website have links to certain federal and state resources that might be helpful to the public. Please indicate below the resources you found on your state's website.

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Link to CMS’s Nursing Home Compare website
Link to the State Long Term Care Ombudsman Program
Link to a State Aging and Disability Resource Center (if applicable)

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* 10. CMS recommends that state websites include state enforcement sanctions and state licensure survey results (such as for violations of state requirements that are in addition to federal requirements). Please indicate below if you found either on your state's website.

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State enforcement sanctions
State licensure survey results

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