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(e)] The Oversight Committee shall evaluate the progress in improving
nursing home care quality AND ASSISTED LIVING FACILITY QUALITY statewide,
including consideration of:
(1) Quality of care standards for nursing homes AND ASSISTED LIVING
FACILITIES;
(2) STANDARDS FOR THE IDENTIFICATION OF THE ONSET OF DEMENTIA
AND ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE;
(3) STANDARDS FOR THE IDENTIFICATION OF CONDITIONS
APPROPRIATE FOR HOSPICE SERVICES;
[(2)] (3) (4) Staffing patterns and staffing standards;
[(3)](4) (5) Policies and procedures for inspecting nursing homes AND
ASSISTED LIVING FACILITIES, and responding to quality of care complaints;
[(4)] (5) (6) A comparison of Maryland standards, policies, and
procedures to those in other states;
[(5)] (6) (7) The labor pool available to fill nursing and nursing aide
jobs; and
[(6)](7) (8) State funding mechanisms for nursing homes AND
ASSISTED LIVING FACILITIES, including the Medicaid Nursing Home Reimbursement
System, and regulation of nursing homes; AND
(9) THE PROVISION AND QUALITY OF MENTAL AND BEHAVIORAL
HEALTH CARE SERVICES TO MEET THE NEEDS OF NURSING HOME AND ASSISTED
LIVING FACILITY RESIDENTS.
[(f)] (E) [(1)] The Office of Health Care Quality in the Department of Health
and Mental Hygiene shall submit a report to the Oversight Committee [twice]
annually on the [implementation of the Task Force recommendations and the] status
of quality of care in nursing homes AND ASSISTED LIVING FACILITIES.
[(2) The reports shall be submitted on March 1 and September 1 of each
year.]
[(g)] (F) The Deputy Secretary of Health Care Financing, OR THE DEPUTY
SECRETARY'S DESIGNEE, shall report annually to the Oversight Committee on the
status of the Medicaid Nursing Home Reimbursement System, which shall include
but not be limited to:
(1) Elements of the existing methodology that are no longer relevant;
(2) Elements of the existing methodology that can be revised;
(3) The appropriateness of redesigning the system given changing
demographics of the target population; and
(4) General Fund and federal fund savings from a system redesign that
may be redirected to nursing home staff development in the nursing cost center.
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