Is it true that nursing facilities are no longer eligible for the MERC grant?
Correct, based on a Legislative change that began with the 2008 Application, nursing facilities are no longer eligible to apply for MERC grant. The application requests Fiscal Year data. Our institution uses a July-June fiscal year, but many of our sites have different fiscal years. We are having the training sites provide some portions of the data requested in the application, and for each program we have many training sites. Do the sites need to provide data in the same time period as our fiscal year, or can we accept data from them based on their fiscal year? It is acceptable to have the sites report their own fiscal year data. Ideally, we’d have liked all reporting to be based on a standard time period (say a calendar year) but this would have added to the reporting burden. By allowing programs and sites to report based on their own fiscal year, some standardization is lost, but reporting is more manageable. Please note somewhere on the application which questions were answered by
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