BREAKING: (COVID-19) CMS says primary survey focus will be on infection control preparedness

March 10, 2020
Accreditation Insider - Volume 14 Issue 11
Accreditation, CMS, COVID-19, Environment and Facilities, Infection Control, Joint Commission, Survey Preparation

CMS ordered its state and regional surveyors to suspend “non-emergency inspections across the country” to allow “inspectors to turn their focus on...Read More »

Verma Raps Accrediting Organizations’ ‘Glaring Conflict of Interest’

March 3, 2020
Accreditation Insider - Volume 14 Issue 10
Accreditation, CMS, Joint Commission, Quality Improvement, Survey Preparation

Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services Administrator...Read More »

Value-Based Metrics Penalize Top-Performing Hospitals

February 25, 2020
Accreditation Insider - Volume 14 Issue 9
Accreditation, Data Tracking, Quality Improvement, Survey Preparation

Hospitals that are recognized for high-quality cardiac care...Read More »

CMS eliminates 2nd survey for psychiatric hospitals, to merge B-tags into SOMA

February 11, 2020
Inside Accreditation & Quality - Volume 2 Issue 3
CMS, Survey Coordinator Training, Survey Preparation

CMS announced it is combining the interpretive guidelines that its surveyors use for psychiatric hospitals into the main Appendix A for hospitals...Read More »

CMS updates its surveyors’ manual for the first time in over a year

February 11, 2020
Inside Accreditation & Quality - Volume 2 Issue 3
CMS, Policies and Procedures, Survey Coordinator Training, Survey Preparation

CMS is revising its State Operations Manual (SOM) for hospitals in one of the first significant overhauls in more than a year. But be aware that...Read More »

CMS offers training on new electronic form for restraint-related deaths

January 28, 2020
Inside Accreditation & Quality - Volume 2 Issue 2
CMS, Environment and Facilities, Policies and Procedures, Survey Preparation

As of January 1, CMS eliminated the paper version of the form to report patient deaths associated with restraint or seclusion. Form CMS-10455 must...Read More »

TJC clarifies 1135 waivers, which suspend rules during a disaster

January 14, 2020
Accreditation Insider - Volume 14 Issue 3
Accreditation, CMS, Emergency Management, Joint Commission, Survey Preparation

Joint Commission–accredited hospitals and CAHs must have a process for requesting an 1135 waiver from CMSRead More »

Expect the next decade to focus on coping with new technology and old problems

December 10, 2019
Inside Accreditation & Quality - Volume 2 Issue 1
Accreditation, CMS, Data Tracking, Emergency Management, Environment and Facilities, Healthcare Violence, HFAP, Infection Control, Joint Commission, Leadership, Life Safety, Medical Error Prevention, Medication Management, National Patient Safety Goals, Patient Safety, Policies and Procedures, Quality Improvement, Sentinel Event Alerts, Suicide Prevention, Survey Coordinator Training, Survey Preparation

Healthcare compliance changed quite a bit in the last decade. For one thing, fire safety moved into the current millennium with the adoption of...Read More »

Review HFAP’s handy summary of recent CoP updates

December 3, 2019
Inside Accreditation & Quality - Volume 2 Issue 1
Accreditation, CMS, HFAP, Survey Preparation

HFAP provided a handy list of what CoPs were to change, and stated that “all regulations are effective November 29, 2019 with the exceptions of...Read More »

Look for TJC, others to update standards against newly revised CoPs

December 3, 2019
Inside Accreditation & Quality - Volume 2 Issue 1
Accreditation, CMS, HFAP, Joint Commission, Survey Preparation

Watch for information on possible changes to medical record, nursing, and patients’ rights standards from The Joint Commission (TJC), HFAP, and...Read More »

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