Let's talk: You'd like to know who watches over health care in Nevada?

The Nevada Bureau of Health Care Quality and Compliance is responsible for the licensing and regulating of Nevada's health care facilities. Nursing homes, assisted livng residences, Homes for Individual Residential Care, Adult Day Care, Personal Care Agencies and Home Health Agencies are included, along with other facilities.

If you need to know who in the state government oversees health care quality, it is this Bureau. They hold inspections and surveys.

The Bureau is authorized by the federal Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) to certify medical facilities and providers and skilled nursing facilities in the Medicare and Medicaid reimbursement programs.

They also investigate complaints. If you have a complaint about Residents'/Patients' rights, abuse, or quality of life and quality of care, you can report it to the BHCQC in a variety of ways, including phone calls, letters, E-mail messages, and faxed messages. They offer a Complaint Information notice at this link: Complaints and Investigations. There is a link to an on-line complaint form at the Bureau's website.

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