Assessment of Regional Nursing Home Preparedness for and Regulatory Responsiveness to Wildfire Risk in the Western US.

ABSTRACT:

Importance

It is uncertain whether emergency preparedness and regulatory oversight for US nursing homes are aligned with local wildfire risk.

Objective

To evaluate the likelihood that nursing homes at elevated risk of wildfire exposure meet US Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) emergency preparedness standards and to compare the time to reinspection by exposure status.

Design, setting, and participants

This cross-sectional study of nursing homes in the continental western US from January 1, 2017, through December 31, 2019, was conducted using cross-sectional and survival analyses. The prevalence of high-risk facilities within 5 km of areas at or exceeding the 85th percentile of nationalized wildfire risk across areas overseen by 4 CMS regional offices (New

SUBMITTER: Festa N 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10293909 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature