Survey guidance keeps evolving
Important updates may appear across regulations, State Operations Manual guidance, CMS memoranda, manuals and survey communications.
RegWatch for Long-Term Care & Skilled Nursing
Turn long-term care regulatory change into a focused review process.
Monitor the federal and state requirements, CMS participation and survey guidance, licensing sources, resident-care standards, infection-control guidance, workplace-safety materials, privacy rules and cybersecurity sources your organization selects. When something changes, RegWatch helps your team see the context and decide what to review next.
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Regulatory change command center
42 CFR Part 483
CMS Survey Guidance
State Licensure
Resident Rights
Infection Control
QAPI
Emergency Preparedness
HIPAA & Security
Why RegWatch
Long-term care oversight is spread across rules, manuals, surveys and state programs.
Skilled nursing and nursing facilities may need to follow federal participation requirements, survey guidance, state licensing updates, Medicaid materials, public-health guidance, workplace-safety sources and privacy rules. RegWatch brings the sources you select into a consistent monitoring and review process.
State-by-state facility requirements
Multi-facility operators may need different watchlists for licensure, Medicaid participation, reporting and local requirements.
Policies touch many care processes
Resident rights, care planning, infection prevention, emergency operations, privacy and workforce procedures may all require coordinated review.
Alerts need operational context
Reviewers need the source, relevant dates, affected topics and clear ownership—not another unstructured notification.
Monitoring Coverage
Build a watchlist around each facility’s programs, jurisdictions and responsibilities.
Select the sources that matter to your organization, then expand or separate coverage as locations, payer participation and operating requirements change.
CMS participation and survey guidance
Selected 42 CFR Part 483 requirements, CMS State Operations Manual guidance, QSO memoranda and survey or certification materials.
State licensure and Medicaid oversight
Selected state licensing authorities, survey agencies, Medicaid program materials, reporting notices and facility-specific requirements.
Resident care, rights and quality
Resident rights, assessments and care planning, quality of care and life, pharmacy services, abuse prevention, reporting and QAPI topics.
Infection control and emergency preparedness
Selected CMS and CDC infection-prevention materials, outbreak guidance, emergency planning requirements and related survey guidance.
Workforce, training and facility safety
Selected staffing, competency and training requirements, OSHA materials, workplace-violence guidance, safe-patient-handling sources and life-safety topics.
Privacy, security and breach response
HIPAA Privacy, Security and Breach Notification requirements, selected state privacy laws and cybersecurity or vendor-oversight guidance.
Available coverage and applicability vary by source, jurisdiction and organization. Your team chooses the requirements and monitors it wants RegWatch to follow.
How RegWatch Works
Move from “something changed” to a focused review process.
Select your monitors, receive organized change intelligence and optionally connect policies for gap assessment.
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Select your monitors
Choose the CMS, state, licensing, survey, public-health, workplace-safety, privacy and other sources relevant to your facilities.
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Review focused change summaries
See what changed, important dates, affected requirements, source links and suggested review areas.
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Connect policies when useful
Upload and assign resident-care, infection-control, emergency, privacy, workforce or operational policies to the monitors they support.
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Assess gaps and document action
Review potential policy gaps, remediation guidance, ownership and evidence in a consistent workflow.
Illustrative workflow
New Update
A change is detected. Your team sees the context.
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Monitor
Selected source
Actively monitoring
RegWatch follows the rule, bulletin, manual, guidance or licensing source your team selects.
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Detect
Change identified
Change Alert Detected
Long-Term Care Update
New
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Requirement updated
Source captured and compared with the previous version.
The update is captured, summarized and organized so reviewers can focus on what changed.
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Review
Context delivered
RegWatch Review
Ready for your team
Ready
SummaryWhat changed
Key datesWhen it matters
PoliciesWhat to review
Next stepsWho owns action
Assigned to compliance, quality and operations reviewers
Your team receives a focused review package instead of another unstructured alert.
Built for Long-Term Care & Skilled Nursing
One monitoring approach for diverse facilities, ownership groups and jurisdictions.
RegWatch can support organizations with different certification status, payer participation, operating structures and state requirements—without forcing every facility into the same watchlist.
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Independent skilled nursing facilities
Multi-facility nursing home operators
Medicare-certified skilled nursing facilities
Medicaid-certified nursing facilities
Continuing care campuses with skilled nursing
Long-term care management organizations
What Your Team Gains
A more manageable way to track change, assess impact and document follow-through.
Less manual source checking
Reduce repeated searches across CMS, state, licensing, public-health and workplace-safety websites.
More focused survey-readiness reviews
Give owners the source, dates, affected topics and review context needed to evaluate next steps.
Better policy and procedure alignment
Connect selected requirements with the care, safety, privacy and operational documents your teams rely on.
Clearer ownership and evidence
Keep regulatory updates, assessments, review activity, assigned actions and supporting evidence organized.
Frequently Asked Questions
Long-term care monitoring, organized for practical review.
Start with selected regulatory sources, then add policy assessment workflows when they are useful to your team.
Request a DemoWhich long-term care and skilled-nursing requirements can RegWatch monitor?
Organizations can select from available federal, state and local sources, including 42 CFR Part 483, CMS survey and certification materials, State Operations Manual guidance, state licensing authorities, Medicaid program materials, infection-control guidance, workplace-safety sources, HIPAA requirements and selected cybersecurity frameworks. Available coverage depends on the selected monitors and sources.
Can a multi-state operator use different watchlists by facility?
Yes. Watchlists can be organized around the jurisdictions, facility types, payer programs and selected requirements relevant to each location or operating group.
Can RegWatch help us follow CMS survey guidance and F-tag updates?
Where the relevant CMS and survey guidance sources are available and selected, RegWatch can organize changes with source links, dates and affected topics so your team can determine which procedures, training materials or policies may require review.
Can we use RegWatch without uploading policies?
Yes. You can use RegWatch for regulatory monitoring and change summaries without uploading policies. Policy uploads are optional and enable policy assessment workflows.
How does policy assessment work?
You assign uploaded policies and procedures to relevant monitors. When selected requirements change, RegWatch can identify potential gaps and areas that may require review, clarification or remediation.
Does RegWatch determine legal applicability or replace counsel?
No. RegWatch provides regulatory intelligence, workflow support and policy assessment assistance. Your organization remains responsible for determining applicability and obtaining legal, clinical, compliance or other professional advice where needed.
Start with the sources that matter to your facilities
Make long-term care regulatory monitoring easier to manage.
Get a free RegWatch account and begin building your organization’s monitoring watchlist.