Links

NYSDOH Regulations

https://regs.health.ny.gov/

https://regs.health.ny.gov/search-title-10  - To find nursing home regulations, search for "415" (the section number for the nursing home regulations) and what you want to search for.  For example, searching "415 Rubella" will find the nursing home regulations on rubella immunization for staff.

https://regs.health.ny.gov/volume-c-title-10/content/part-415-nursing-homes-minimum-standards - direct link to the NYSDOH nursing home regulations 

NY Public Health Law

http://public.leginfo.state.ny.us/navigate.cgi  click “Laws” and “Laws of New York”, scroll down to PBH.  You can also use this site to search for pending legislation. 

https://www.health.ny.gov/diseases/communicable/influenza/seasonal/providers/prevention_of_influenza_transmission/ - Influenza masking requirements

NYSDOH Dear Administrator Letters

https://www.health.ny.gov/professionals/nursing_home_administrator/letters.htm 

Also look in the Health Commerce System if you have access as not all of the letters are posted on the public site.  Once logged in, go to "My Content", "Documents by Group" , "View All Document Groups" and choose "Long Term Care"

NYSED License Verification

http://www.op.nysed.gov/opsearches.htm#nme 

CMS / Federal Regulations

https://www.cms.gov/Regulations-and-Guidance/Guidance/Manuals/downloads/som107ap_pp_guidelines_ltcf.pdf 

CMS MDS and RAI

https://www.cms.gov/Medicare/Quality-Initiatives-Patient-Assessment-Instruments/NursingHomeQualityInits 

CMS Program for Evaluating Payment Patterns Electronic Report (PEPPER Report)

https://pepper.cbrpepper.org/ 

CMS Memos to State Surveyors

https://www.cms.gov/Medicare/Provider-Enrollment-and-Certification/SurveyCertificationGenInfo/Policy-and-Memos-to-States-and-Regions

CMS CASPER (Certification And Survey Provider Enhanced Reports) Reports

https://qtso.cms.gov/ 

Search Statements of Deficiency

https://projects.propublica.org/nursing-homes/ 

Newsletters

https://skillednursingnews.com/ 

https://www.mcknights.com/ 

Associations

https://www.flmda.org/ 

http://nymda.org/ 

https://paltc.org/ 

https://www.nyshfa-nyscal.org/ 

https://www.leadingageny.org/ 

CMS & Medicare

https://www.ngsmedicare.com/ - the Medicare carrier for the Finger Lakes region

https://www.cms.gov/Regulations-and-Guidance/Guidance/Manuals/Internet-Only-Manuals-IOMs - Medicare policy manuals

https://www.cms.gov/Outreach-and-Education/Medicare-Learning-Network-MLN/MLNGenInfo - Medicare training materials

https://www.cms.gov/Medicare/Medicare-Fee-for-Service-Payment/SNFPPS/PDPM - PDPM

https://qsep.cms.gov/welcome.aspx - Surveyor & Provider training materials

Data

https://profiles.health.ny.gov/ - NYSDOH Provider profiles (physicians, hospitals, nursing homes, home care, etc)

https://www.medicare.gov/physiciancompare/  - Medicare Physician Compare  

https://www.medicare.gov/nursinghomecompare/search.html? - Medicare Nursing Home Compare

https://www.cms.gov/OpenPayments - Payments from industry to physicians and providers

https://projects.propublica.org/checkup/ - Individual physician prescribing records from the Medicare Part D Database

https://health.data.ny.gov/ - NYSDOH raw data download portal

https://data.cms.gov/ - CMS raw data download portal

https://rochealthdata.org/ - Monroe County Flu/RSV Data

CDC

https://www.cdc.gov/longtermcare/ 

COVID-19

https://paltc.org/COVID-19 

https://coronavirus.health.ny.gov/home

https://www.leadingageny.org/topics/coronavirus/ 

https://www.rochester.edu/coronavirus-update/

https://www.rochesterregional.org/coronavirus-covid19/employee-toolkit 

https://covid.nymda.org/ - NYMDA COVID-19 Resource Project site with guidance, resources, and coaching information.