About SIQ

The Sharing Innovations in Quality (SIQ) Web site is an electronic library of resources for long term care. It includes clinical standards and guidelines useful to surveyors and to professionals in the nursing home setting. In addition, the site contains summaries of reference material cited in the newly revised CMS Guidance to Surveyors for Long Term Care Facilities. SIQ is sponsored by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS).

Origins of SIQ

The SIQ resource library is an outgrowth of the Sharing Innovations in Quality project that CMS carried out from 1996-1999 in collaboration with national stakeholder groups and State survey agencies. That project produced the original SIQ resource library, which housed both innovative ideas submitted by nursing homes and approved by the group, and a limited selection of clinical standards and guidelines submitted by national clinical organizations.

SIQ Activities

CMS has undertaken this effort in order to assist you in locating from among thousands of publications, those that are the most authoritative to guide (1) professionals who are planning and/or delivering clinical services to residents in nursing homes, and (2) surveyors who are evaluating that care.

How are the summaries developed?

Once a resource is identified for inclusion, a detailed summary is developed, which is then reviewed and approved by the owning organization, author, or publisher. In some cases, organizations grant SIQ permission to include the full text resource in the electronic library in addition to a summary.

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