Revised: Training Plan for iQIES Launch in Long-Term Care

REVISIONS TO QSO24-21-NH ORIGINALLY RELEASED ON AUGUST 6, 2024 • CMS is postponing the iQIES Survey & Certification (S&C) Nursing Home (NH) release scheduled for February 2025. Therefore, we are postponing the training sessions scheduled for October-December 2024. At this time, we are targeting training sessions for the second quarter of calendar year 2025. CMS will continue to communicate updates with the State Survey Agencies as additional information becomes available.
• The CMS iQIES team is developing a training and support plan to help all State Agency and CMS staff prepare for the launch and transition to the iQIES platform. This memo provides high-level details about the training plan to transition Long-Term Care (LTC) to the iQIES platform.
• The LTCSP training will focus on technical and related procedural changes.