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CMS Warns Detroit Hospital to Improve IC Issues or Lose Funding

The hospital was notified in January of the deadline to pass an inspection. Failure to do so could result in Harper losing the funding that provides 85% of its inpatient revenue.

Briefings on Accreditation & Quality

CMS revises immediate jeopardy process

Be prepared to be held accountable for actions by contractors, staff, or volunteers that result in noncompliance with CMS’ Conditions of Participation (CoP) and put a patient in harm’s way. Even if those actions are unintentional, your facility still could face a finding of immediate jeopardy (IJ).


 

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Are You Ready? Targeting Hot Spots in Hospital Compliance

Webinar Rebroadcast date: Thursday, May 23, 2019, 1:00-4:00 p.m. EST

Summary: In this three-hour virtual workshop, learn about the hot spots in hospital compliance in such areas as ligature risk, high-level disinfection and sterilization, titration and therapeutic duplication, sterile compounding and USP 797, management of dialysis programs (including infection control), training and competencies, and common problems within the environment of care and life safety.

Learn more: https://hcmarketplace.com/targeting-hot-spots-052319


 

Editor's Picks

The CMS Conditions of Participation and Interpretive Guideline, 2019

April 2, 2019


 

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