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...
A new proposed requirement released by CMS in June would require all hospitals to implement an antibiotic stewardship program to participate in federal programs such as Medicare.
At Vanderbilt University Medical Center (VUMC) in Tennessee, a multidisciplinary team has been working on evidence-based guidelines for limiting blood use and waste.
Last week, CMS released data on its new hospital star ratings system, previewing the scores of 4,599 hospitals. The agency says it will be posting those ratings on its Hospital Compare site “shortly.”
On July 13, CMS and the Food and Drug Administration [FDA] sent a letter to Congress asking that all medical devices be given a unique ID number and that number be included in billing data and claims forms.
