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CMS has released final guidance hospitals for compliance with Conditions of Participation when services or buildings are co-located with...Read More »

In asking for tips for first-time accreditation managers, Inside Accreditation & Quality also asked consultants and accreditation...Read More »

The new CMS interim final rule that requires staff vaccinations against COVID-19 supersedes state or local laws or orders that prevent vaccine...Read More »

Start evaluating staffing levels and develop a plan for educating your workforce on new CMS and OSHA worker COVID-19 vaccine mandates that could ...Read More »

The CDC continues to update its COVID-19 infection prevention and control recommendations for healthcare personnel. Those recommendations call for...Read More »

CMS issues EMTALA warning to hospitals, while TJC reiterates surveys may be impacted by continuing public health emergency.Read More »

Look for an interim final rule in October that will require “staff within all Medicare and Medicaid-certified facilities” to be vaccinated against...Read More »

The HHS Office of Inspector General (OIG) is urging CMS to expand its hospital Conditions of Participation, or at least the interpretive...Read More »

CMS is adding a maternal morbidity quality measure as well as a reporting requirement on COVID-19 vaccination rates among hospital and long-term...Read More »