Nursing Home Regulations - State by State
Locating nursing home regulations for your state can be confusing. A new project from the University of Minnesota School of Public Health is compiling the regulations at their site: Nursing Home Regulations Plus. As they explain on their site:
With funding from theHulda B. and Maurice L. Rothschild Foundation,researchers at the University of Minnesota School of Public Healthcreated this website to make transparent the realities of state nursinghome regulation.
Thissearchable website will serve as a one-stop location to examine andcompare the content of state regulations related to nursing homes, theprocesses of regulation and exceptions to regulations within a state,recent state changes, innovative nursing-home designs and programs thatwere accomplished within existing regulations, and innovative stateregulatory initiative.
Use this location in multiple ways:
--learn about regulations governing a particular state
--learn about a particular topic nationwide
--consult federal regulations and related codes
--check out the art of the possible
--the effects of federal and state agencies
--what providers are developing within existing regulations
--coalitions in states
--related publications and research
The Massachusetts regulations can be found here.