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HFAP's top-cited deficiencies for critical access hospitals

Editor's note: Recently, the Healthcare Facilities Accreditation Program (HFAP) released lists of its most-cited deficiencies of 2012-2015 for acute care and critical access hospitals. The following is an edited Q&A with Karen Beem, RN, MS, standards interpretation specialist for HFAP, and Brad Keyes, CHSP, engineering advisor for HFAP. Beem and Keyes spoke to us about the common issues that caused these citations, and suggested ways to prevent them in the future. All HFAP standards are based on CMS' Conditions of Participation.

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