Review your antibiotic stewardship program against latest CoP revisions

January 2, 2020
Inside Accreditation & Quality - Volume 2 Issue 2
Accreditation, CMS, Infection Control, Medication Management

Hospital antibiotic stewardship programs will become a Condition of Participation (CoP) requirement as of March 30, 2020.Read More »

CMS updates IC CoP as of March 30

January 2, 2020
Inside Accreditation & Quality - Volume 2 Issue 2
Accreditation, CMS, Infection Control, Medication Management

Here is the revised wording of the hospital Condition of Participation (CoP) adding requirements for antibiotic stewardship. Read More »

CMS updates its surveyor’s manual for first time in more than a year

December 23, 2019
Accreditation Insider - Volume 13 Issue 54
Accreditation, CMS

Just in time for the holidays, CMS is offering the gift of a newly revised State Operations Manual (SOM), one of the first significant overhauls...Read More »

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

December 23, 2019
Accreditation Insider - Volume 13 Issue 54
CMS, Healthcare Violence, Patient Safety, Policies and Procedures

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

Review home health discharge planning changes to assess hospital impact

December 10, 2019
Inside Accreditation & Quality - Volume 2 Issue 1
CMS, Policies and Procedures, Quality Improvement

After four years, a proposed rule, and a deadline extension, CMS has finalized the conditions home health agencies must meet through the discharge...Read 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 »

Inside Accreditation and Quality, December 2019

December 2, 2019
Inside Accreditation & Quality - Volume 1 Issue 12
Accreditation, CMS, Joint Commission, Patient Safety, Quality Improvement

Subscribers, download this month's full IAQ newsletter Read More »

What's really driving 30-day readmission declines?

November 12, 2019
Accreditation Insider - Volume 13 Issue 48
CMS, Patient Safety, Policies and Procedures, Quality Improvement

A Harvard study offers an alternative explanation for declines in hospital readmissions.Read More »

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